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>From: Anthony Rockwood - MSCD Meteorology <address@hidden> >Organization: Metropolitan State College of Denver >Keywords: 199909081744.LAA29387 ldm automatic startup Tony- >Hum. Weather5 is the old Wxbox and it has never been reconfigured in any >way. I think what happens is that if it gets rebooted, it still tries to >start the LDM at startup. Can you tell me how to change what gets started >and what doesn't at startup? The automatic startup of ldm on weather5 is controlled by the file /etc/rc2.d/S98ldmd which is a link to the /etc/init.d/ldmd script. If you remove the link in /etc/rc2.d, the LDM will not be automatically started. You will need to be root to do this. >Sorry 'bout that, Hsie, thanks for bringing this to Tony's (and our) attention. Don