How to disable unwanted services in other than squid?

gardenair · 03-05-2011, 05:48 AM

hi,
I have installed squid using CentOS 5.When the server boot there are default services which are enabled at Boot time. My server is dedicated only for squid proxy server. I want to know how that when my server boot only the relevant services should start which may helpful for squid. Remaining unwanted services should be disable because they are just occupying memory of the server. Kindly guide me which command I should use and which services may I disable for smooth functioning of my squid.

thanks in advance,
garden

EricTRA · 03-05-2011, 06:02 AM

Hello,

Have a look at the manpage for the chkconfig command:

Code:

man chkconfig

more in particular:

Code:

chkconfig <servicename> off

will disable the service in all runlevels but still will leave them available for later if you might need them.

Code:

service <servicename> stop

will just stop the service.

Kind regards,

Eric