Do I really need to load all this at boot?

[Magnus Therning]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:15:21PM -0500, Nathan Sprangers wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've noticed some things loading at boot that I'm not sure I really
>need.  For example, I have mol installed which required a dhcp server
>however it only needs to be run while mol is running and the mol
>scripts start it.  Also, powernowd starts but I'm using a PPC G3 and I
>don't know if this is a processor that supports more than "2 frequencey
>steps like AMD's PowerNow! and Intel's Pentium M family" (from the
>manpage).  I know this has to do with editing init scripts, but I don't
>know which ones or how.  Can anyone offer any suggestions?

The easiest thing is to simply remove the packages you don't need.

Modifying init-scripts is not a thing I'd recommend, better is to take a
look at /etc/rc[0123456S].d and clean out the symlinks you don't need
(run update-rc.d as root if you like a tool to do it, I don't know of
any GUI tool for it). The default run-level for Ubuntu (and Debian) is
2.

/M

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