If you want to collectively make it so that NFS and its counterparts do not start up at boot time, then use chkconfig nfs off. If you just want them to start at boot up and then you stop and start them on your own use service nfs start, and service nfs stop. On 6/14/06, Brett Serkez <bserkez at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Thx Joshua Gimer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060614/43f6797e/attachment-0005.html>