Since there isn't a SuSE 9.0 subforum anymore...I was wondering if this is the right place for this question.

1. How do you stop a service/daemon in SuSE 9.0?

In the RedHat distro you do #service <service/damon> stop
like if you want to stop samba server you just do #service smb stop

2. How do you prevent a service/daemon from loading at start up?

In RedHat you just to #chkconfig smb off
(you can specify your runlevels but that's the main idea)

I don't find those utilities in SuSE 9.0. I can't even find the locate, slocate commands, or whereis or which in SuSE.

any tips will help.

Randomx

yast->system->runlevel editor->expert mode. that will display all services and their runlevels. highlight and edit.

right on dude, thank you.

randomx