> > 1) How can I collectively stop all the NFS, portmap, whatever? I'm hoping > > it can be manipulated as a group because occationally I actually will > > want to use NFS. Try chkconfig --list You can use: chkconfig --list | grep 3:on to see what will start at boot. Use: chkconfig <name> off to inhibit what ever you want to start up and /etc/init.d/<name> stop to stop same interactively. You'll need to experiment a bit, use man, to do some research to figure out how to 'tune' a system. Brett