will this be o.k. to do

shanenin · 11-14-2003, 10:03 PM

If I am not using send mail or ssh I would like to stop those services. Can I just comment out these two shell scripts in my /etc/rc.d directory. the two scripts are called rc.sendmail and rc.sshd ? is this a sensible way of doing it?

slakmagik · 11-14-2003, 10:29 PM

That's what I did.

(Chmod'ed them, I mean. You'd have to 'comment them out' in the scripts in rc.d, but you can disable them with chmod, of course.) You can chmod others and comment stuff out in inetd.conf, too.

shanenin · 11-15-2003, 12:29 PM

I decided to chmod them it worked nice. Now my only listeming port is 6000. I could boot into runlevel three and startx-- -nolisten tcp. But I boot into X directly, so I am haveing a little more trouble getting that to work. Tried some differnt things but they messed some stuff up.

slakmagik · 11-16-2003, 02:39 AM

Yeah - I guess start out at the x/g/k-dm man pages and follow it out from there. If you were using xdm, since startx is just a wrapper to X, I think you could just append the option to the 'X' line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, and it's probably something similar for gdm/kdm. I don't use runlevel 4, though, so I'm not real familiar with the ?dm's.