preventing slackware services from auto starting

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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To turn off the pcmcia service in slackware, try this:

chmod a-x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia

To kill it without rebooting, do this:

. /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop

Note the period at the beginning, it is required.

HTH

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Joseph C. Lininger
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And so it came to pass that on Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Jude DaShiell said

> Does some way exist to turn off pcmcia so the computer doesn't attempt to 
> start it up when booting?  I've turned pcmcia off on the install where you 
> get to select services but that's not stopping the computer from trying to 
> start it up anyway.
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