On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote: <snip> > > why trial and error? > chkconfig postfix off > > are you really have services uncontrolled running > instead explicit dsiable or enable them? > > chkconfig --list and disable anything you are not using > if it comes to servers connected to a network > > chkconfig --help > chkconfig version 1.3.49.3 - Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Red Hat, Inc. > This may be freely redistributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. > I did chkconfig --list|grep postfix and it has postfix 0:off 1:on ......... 6:off The numbers are the run levels the service will run on? After chkconfig postfix off, they all changed to off. 1-5 had been on. -wes