Hi Experts,
I am a Linux Engineer but not too familiar with SCO Openserver Unix. I was wondering how I could do the following:
1. How can I start/stop and disable portmap service ? In Linux, we could simply use #chkconfig to control the behaviors of the service at various runlevels.
2. The same goes for nfs service. I have stopped it using #nfs stop but I wanna disable it at all.
Thanks for your pointer in advance.
Best regards,
William
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The default run level for SCO is 2 so the startup scripts are in /etc/rc2.d
There is no /etc/init.d in SCO you have to disable the startups in either /etc/rc2.d or /etc/inittab - it looks like both of these are started in /etc/rc2.d.
Be very careful with inittab though.
the two files should be:
/etc/S84rpcinit -- You will need to edit it and stop the portmap part - it does other things. maybe remove portmap from the PROCS line.
/etc/S89nfs
Ok, I'm more familiar with Solaris (where runlevel 3 is multiuser+nfs), so I thought they were in there (one sco site I found seemed to indicate they were). You should not have to edit the files, just rename them or delete the links (the files in /etc/rc2.d should should be symbolic links). Here's a page that lists the files that should be in /etc/rc2.d:
http://docsrv.sco.com:507/
If you just disable rpcinit altogether then the other PROCS started will also be disabled - most likely they are not needed anyway, but...
From the man page:
The /etc/rpcinit command starts or stops the Remote Procedure
Call (RPC) software. RPC will start automatically at system
startup time if /etc/rpcinit is linked to /etc/rc2.d/Sname
Similarly, RPC will stop automatically at system shutdown time if
/etc/rpcinit is linked to /etc/rc0.d/Kname See rc0(ADM) and
rc2(ADM) for further information.
/etc/rpcinit starts the daemons portmap(NADM), rwalld(NADM), and
rusersd(NADM). By default, the daemon rexd(NADM) is disabled.
Hi All,
Both nfs and rpcinit files under /etc and S84rpcinit and S89nfs under /etc/rc2.d are linked to /var/opt/K/SCO/nfs/2.1.1Ga
Anyway, I think I am able to to disable portmap and nfs as you guys advised.
But could you confirm that I just change the name S84rpcinit and S89nfs to small letters not to load the services at start up.
Thanks for your time and explanations.
Cheers.
William
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# pwd
/etc
# ls -al nfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Oct 29 2001 nfs -> /var/opt/K/SCO/nfs/2.1.1Ga
# ls -al rpcinit
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Oct 29 2001 rpcinit -> /var/opt/K/SCO/nfs/2.1.1Ga
#
# pwd
/etc/rc2.d
# ls -al *init
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Oct 29 2001 S84rpcinit -> /var/opt/K/SCO/nfs/2.1.1Ga
# ls -al *nfs
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Oct 29 2001 S89nfs -> /var/opt/K/SCO/nfs/2.1.1Ga
#
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by: sentnerPosted on 2008-05-10 at 23:48:38ID: 21541646
Well, I believe SCO keeps its startup/shutdown scripts in the rcX.d directories (where X is the runlevel), like Solaris. Check in /etc/rc3.d for S11portmap and S60nfs. Just rename them to use a lower-case "s", and that will disable them. As for starting/stopping, just run:
/etc/init.d/portmap stop (or start)
/etc/init.d/nfs stop (or start)