http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2007/05/29/quickly-disable-startup-services-on-mac-os-x en-us 40 additions to a vast pool of entropy by Igor and Ines <p>If your running services are cranked up by <a href="http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/SystemStarter.8.html"><strong>SystemStarter</strong></a> and you want to quickly disable them, it is enough to create a <strong>.disabled</strong> file in the respective directory to stop SystemStarter from starting that service. Thus if I wanted to disable the automatic startup of my <a href="http://www.postgresql.org">PostgreSQL</a> database, I would create the following file:</p> <p><code> $ sudo touch /Library/StartupItems/PostgreSQL/.disabled</code></p> <p>Funny enough I could not find any official documentation apart from the following <a href="http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20061204120027876">blog entry</a> for this.</p> Tue, 29 May 2007 12:28:00 +0000 urn:uuid:a421a4c8-7d89-4ea8-8086-ecb18519d84b igor http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2007/05/29/quickly-disable-startup-services-on-mac-os-x Hacking and Computers Mac OS X