Editing init script?

[foamrotreturns]

I'm running a HDD install and I need to learn how to disable certain services that take a long time when the system is starting like cupsysd. Can someone point me in the right direction here?

[mr_ed]

A collection of Knoppix boot-time parameters (cheatcodes) is here: http://download.linuxtag.org/knoppix...cheatcodes.txt This isn't all of them, though. You may stumble across some that are undocumented in the other main place to poke around, the init script /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig.

-- Ed

[doesnotcompute]

I'm running a HDD install and I need to learn how to disable certain services that take a long time when the system is starting like cupsysd. Can someone point me in the right direction here?

to remove a service from the initiation sequence, try

su
update-rc.d -f service_name remove

where service_name is the name of the service to remove. (in your case, cupsys)
This should remove all references to the service in the various runlevels that load the service.

[clarjon1]

Why not just use the sysv init config app found in the system menu?
(It's icon is streetlights)

[foamrotreturns]

I also found with the help of the #kanotix channel another command called rcconf which allows many services to be enabled and disabled.