What is the command to disable a service ?

[shashi kanth]

With Tru64, what is the command to use to disable a service in particular/all run levels so that the service own't start automatically whenever i reboot the box ?

[John Manger]

One method is to rename the startup script for your application or service inside the relevant run-level directory. That way it will not be started at a particular run-level.

For example, you might rename /sbin/rc3.d/S80myapplication to /sbin/rc3.d/s80myapplication. That would prevent the application starting at run-level 3.

All scripts whose name start with an upper-case S in a particular run-level directory are executed in ascending order when init transitions to that run-level; renaming a script to start with a lower-case s prevents it being executed.

[Venkatesh BL]

Yes, that is one way. You could also rename the actual file that would be present in /sbin/init.d directory.

[shashi kanth]

OK, I got the point, but i already know this information.

But i don't like the concept of manually renaming/moving rc*/init.d* files, since it some times leads to human mistakes.

I am looking for a command , something like "chkconfig" in Linux, which can do this task in Tru64.

Thanks.

[Rob Leadbeater]

Hi,

As far as I'm aware there is no equivalent to the Linux chkconfig command on Tru64.

You have to manually rename or edit files...

Cheers,

Rob

[Pieter 't Hart]

you can add a check in your script to test if a "semafore" file is present.
then you only need to "touch "
to disable startup?
and remove the file for normal operation.