remove ssh/apache etc from starting????

mortals · 18 Oct 2002 at 14:30

Hi,
I notice I have a lot of services opening ports on my pc. I'm behind a firewall and router but I was wandering if I could remove them from starting.

Code:

mortals · 18 Oct 2002 at 14:39

I'm running slackware 8.1 which doesn't seem to have ntsysv

mortals · 18 Oct 2002 at 14:44

cool

I'll take a look

I seem to have rc.processname. e.g. rc.sshd and I only have rc.0 rc.4 and rc.6. rc.0 is a link to rc.6 and I can't find starting of sshd etc in 4 or 6

mortals · 18 Oct 2002 at 15:06

Think I may have found the script initializing them. rc.M. I found this after searching thru the net.

Code:

    * rc.0 = The rc.0 file is a symlink to rc.6
    * rc.M = The init script for multi-user runlevels 2, 3, and 5
    * rc.K = The "administrative" runlevel, single user mode
    * rc.S = The system initialization script
    * rc.4 = The init script for runlevel 4, which is the runlevel that automatically boots into the X Session Manager of choice
    * rc.6 = The script executed by init when rebooting or halting the system

I'm gonna try it I guess ssh/httpd etc aren't needed for normal running of linux

mortals · 18 Oct 2002 at 15:41

I've removed loads of services now and only have a list of 4 net services.

Code:

I found sunrpc in /etc/inetd.config but it was disabled from starting so I don't know why that's still there but seems a lot better than it was and I thought I'd better disable ssh as it seems a bit risky to leave it running esp with this new linux virus which opens ssh

cheers for the help

nice to have the forum back up again

mortals · 18 Oct 2002 at 21:32

Originally posted by Shak
The way I did it for a quick fix was to get it to execute a script on my login that kills the services that i dont require. Alright it may be a bad way to sort it out but it wasnt my box and I only had 5 mins

Shak

Doesn't that mean the services would start and then stop ????

I removed PCMCIA also cos that seems to take a bit of time on startup