On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 08:34:13PM -0500, Dave Sherman wrote: > Y'know, I've heard of chkconfig, but never used it. Somewhere along the > way, I learned how to deal directly with the appropriate files, with no > need (or even desire) for a front-end. Nevertheless, I think chkconfig > is probably a better way of doing things, even if I never bother to use > it. > > That said, though, I was *really* trying to show the individual that it > would be better to completely remove unneeded (and inwanted) services, > than to simply disable them. Thus my instructions about rpm. Unfortunately the two conflict, renaming files contained in a package is a bad idea, because they won't be cleanly removed if he decides he really doesn't need the serivce, and tries to rpm -e (or apt-get remove) But yes, I totally agree about removing the unneeded packages, if nothing else it saves time when you don't have to download updates for packages you aren't using. > -- > Dave Sherman | "They that can give up essential liberty > MCSE, MCSA, CCNA | to obtain a little temporary safety > | deserve neither liberty nor safety." > | - Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) -- Matthew S. Hallacy FUBAR, LART, BOFH Certified http://www.poptix.net GPG public key 0x01938203