Howto stop daemon from starting

Lawful · 04-30-2004, 05:31 AM

Hello, I have Fedora running and I need it to nicly stop loadking sendmail at boot. how can this be acomplished?

mardanian · 04-30-2004, 05:50 AM

type "setup" as root
and then "services" from the menu and disable any services to don't wana start on bootup

Lazarus · 04-30-2004, 05:59 AM

The long story is if you are using text mode (run level 3) look in
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d
this is full of scripts those beginning with a S start those with a K do not
on my setup there is K30sendmail since I also do not need to run it.
If you are using a GUI ie KDE or Gnome then these are in
/etc/rc.d/rc5.d
The short story is on most distros you will find an easy to use tool for this.
On my setup RedHat 9 it is just a program called setup. Just one click will stop sendmail.

Good luck

Crashed_Again · 04-30-2004, 04:06 PM

From a shell as root:

chkconfig sendmail off