Don’t run PPTP and Squid on mission critical Linux boxes

Posted by taewoo on February 3, 2010 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

Apparently PPTP does a lot of disk IO… and it can lock up your Linux server. *sigh* Learned the hard way.

To remove these services…

/etc/init.d/pptp stop

/etc/init.d/cron stop

update-rc.d -f pptp remove

update-rc.d -f cron remove

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