Stopping service startup during boot time

[Roberto Volsa]

Hello,
which is the command to do if i want to stop a service during boot time?
This can be useful if a service cannot start (as NFS...) and it takes too much time to give the FAIL message without proceding with the boot.
Thanks a lot

[Sukant Naik]

Hi,

I hope you are talking about HP-UX server.

You can goto /sbin/init.d directory.

You can stop and start the files here

eg:
#cd /sbin/init.d
# ./nfs.client stop
killing nfsd
killing rpc.mountd
killing rpc.lockd
killing rpc.statd
starting NFS SERVER networking

starting up the rpcbind daemon
rpcbind already started, using pid: 537
starting up the mount daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd
starting up the NFS daemons
/usr/sbin/nfsd 15
starting up the Status Monitor daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.statd
starting up the Lock Manager daemon
/usr/sbin/rpc.lockd
killing biod
killing automount

Also, you can find information about it in the /etc/rc.log file.

-Sukant

[Roberto Volsa]

yes,
i am talking about HP-UX.
But I am referring to stop it's startup when i am at boot time and it cannot start: i want avoid waiting for all the time it try to start

[Donald Kok]

you can use ctrl-backslash to stop the service.

[Sukant Naik]

Hi Roberto,

Then you need to look into the /sbin/rc2.d directory.

Usually, if I dont want to start a script, then I rename the start script with lowercase letters.

#cd /sbin/rc2.d
#mv S337hpapa s337hpapa
#mv S343hplm s343hplm

This will stop the process from starting during boot.

The /sbin/rc2.d directory contains files which are linked to /sbin/rc.d directory. When a file starts with letter "S" it is started during booting. And when a file starts with letter "K" it is halted during shutdown.

Check the manpages too.

-Sukant

[Roberto Volsa]

Hi Sukant,
it's ok, but what you are saying is valid if the boot is termined succsefully.
My problem is that boot takes much time (2 hours...) because NFS cannot start; which is the key combination to press in order to stop this NFS infitite starting and continue with boot?
Thanks

[Sukant Naik · Accepted solution]

Hi Roberto,

If your question is specific to NFS then you need to do a little tweaking of the file /etc/rc.config.d/nfsconf

Here there are parameters like NFS_CLIENT, NFS_SERVER which can be set to 0 (zero), so as to disable making your server as nfs server or an nfs client.

Also, you can break the boot process from the console, by pressing the Break key on the top-left side of your console keyboard.

-Sukant

-Sukant