Long HP-UX 11 Start-up process

[gophy]

Hello,

when starting up HP-UX 11 the whole process takes no less than 35 minutes before getting to login! It would go fast but there are four processes that take almost 10 minutes each before getting [OK] or [N/A] status. I need the workstation just for using C compiler and asci parallel printer as a single root user and have no need for network. Those Start-up lines are:

Starting mail deamon....[busy/wait]

..then after about 3 minutes that line turns into:

unable to qualify my owbusy/waitmain name -- using short name

Than after more than 5 minutes it finally turns to [OK] and Start-up process goes on. Then it stops again at:

Start SNMP HP-UX Network Management subAgent..[busy/wait]

That again takes more than 5 minutes before status turns to [OK]. Then again stops at:

Reinitialize Software Distributer agent deamon...[busy/wait]

Then after more than 5 minutes turns to [OK] and later stops again at:

Start X print server(s)....[busy/wait]

And then after a long wait finally I get to login:root. The workstation was probably pulled from working envinroment and network before I got it. Is there any way that I could somehow skip those four long-waiting lines at startup (maby if there is some key to press for that?), even if I get [Failed] instead of [OK] or [N/A]? Is there anything else that could be done to avoid waiting for those four lines to pass? Again, I need the workstation just as a single user with asci parallel printer connected directly to it and with no Internet or local network connection.

Thank you for your answers

 

[hoinz]

Hello,

if you want any services not to be started at boot time, you may edit the files in /etc/rc.config.d. These files also contain some infos on how to do this.
E.g. for not starting SNMP HP-UX Network Management subAgent go to SnmpHpunix and change it to:
SNMP_HPUNIX_START=0

for more info:
man rc
man rc.config

hope this helps