help me please!!!

[plasmid]

ok, I'm kind of screwed. I'm using drake 7.2, and I activated a daemon using the start up services using drake configuration (I activated postfix). Now my system will only boot in maintanence mode. In this mode I cannot get to X, so I cannot deactivate postfix using the drake tools. I don't know how to deactivate postfix on start up from just a text shell, but I know there must be a way to do this. Please tell me ASAP how to shutdown this service so my system will boot properly again.

(durring boot up, there is a section that says press "I" to enter interactive setup. I tried to do this as well but nothing happened)

save me

-plasmid

[demetrius]

ntsysv ... if its available in maintenance mode will allow you to disable postfix. Otherwise you can cd into /etc/rc.d/rc3.d or rc5.d depending on which runlevel you normally boot to and edit the startup scripts. You will see all the processes listed there with K## (kill) or S## (start) ... just find postfix and change it from S## to s## and it wont start next time you boot up.

[plasmid]

thank-you so much. you really helped me out. now if only I could get postfix to work. when I boot up with postfix, postfix itself seems to start ok, but the bootup crashes when it boots the numlock. any ideas why?

-plasmid

[demetrius]

Sounds like a bug in either numlock or postfix ... I'd post it to the Mandrake bug tracking site and see if they have a fix or are even aware the bug exists. Have you tried starting up postfix after you have booted up?

[plasmid]

is the command to launch the daemon just 'postfix'?

[demetrius]

The comand to start a service temporarily is: service [service_name] start. You'll have to su to root for the command to work or provide the path to the service you're starting if used as a user.