> Thank you! I man'ed the command, and as I understand it, cups will not > restart when I restart the machine? I just think that it is a little > redundant to restart the machine now, rather than to simply ask... /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups stop is the command to stop it. There is also a wrapper script to this called 'services' > Also, what other services can be safely disabled, before I man them all. other than "trial and error" ? there was a neat story on slashdot today where they showed that in windows you could actualy run the system without ANY services running, even IE ! peter