disabling the service

[mummaneni]

Hi everybody,
How to disable a particular service in linux for a specified time ( for example 15 days).

please help me.

thanks inadvance,
yogendra

[Dapper Dan]

You could set it up as a cron job (task scheduler) to stop when you want and start up when you want. From the command line, run kcron, a nice frontend for crontab.

[serz]

Read up on how to setup cronjobs..

http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.com/linux

[Dapper Dan]

Read up on how to setup cronjobs..

http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.com/linux

Boy, that's really helpful serz...

[serz]

Yeah.. I know that those are very hepful.. Now, what.. you want me to search for him? Then here you go..

http://www.deluxnetwork.com/linux/guides/crons.php
http://www.scrounge.org/linux/cron.html
http://wiki.linuxhelp.net/index.php/Cron_Setup
http://www.webmasters-central.com/t/cron.shtml