How to stop unwanted servrices during boot

[baza]

> > 
> >>But the wiki tells the users in the Ubuntu Bootup Howto[1] that the 
> >>chmod approach is 'more straightforward' than removing the symlinks.
> >>Shouldn't this page be updated with the results of this discussion?
> >>I can do this, but I need to know what we should be telling the user 
> >>instead.
> >>
> >>[1] http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UbuntuBootupHowto
> > 
> > 


Can I advise you not to disable hotplug with sudo chmod -x hotplug

It hosed X on my system

Barry