I have synergyc process that starts at boot. How do I prevent this process from starting? I've searched /etc, /etc/init.d for some configs or scripts but found nothing.
3 Answers
Look in /etc/rc.d/* for it..
Also check /etc/rc.local
You could also just add a line to /etc/rc.local, like "killall synergyc" - though if that's called too soon, then it won't help - so you could write a cron script for that. Yeah, it's kinda messy.
answered Jul 7, 2011 at 18:06
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Thanks for reply, but nothing like
/etc/rc.d/or/etc/rc.localexists on Gentoo Linux. Gentoo Linux instead has/etc/conf.d/local.start, but is empty right now.– mariooshJul 11, 2011 at 5:41
Some ideas:
- Check if it has a parent PID that is still alive
- Temporarily replace synergyc by a shell script that prints information about the parent process to a file, to find the parent process.
- udev/hotplug scripts may start processes
- Maybe it added a line to
/etc/inittab - Do you use a display manager? It may be started from there.
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parent PID is 1 -
initprocess;grep -R synergyc /etc/udev/return nothing; nothing related tosynergycin/etc/inittab; I'm usingxdmdisplay manager, butgrep -R synergyc /etc/X11/orgrep -R synergyc /etc/X11/xdm/return nothing too.– mariooshJul 11, 2011 at 5:49
It's really strange that synergyc is owned by root, you'd better start it in your user session.
Check this guide about synergy autostart, there are examples of startup configurations for several desktop managers.
synergycowner isrootso i think is started at boot. I'm logged as another user and~/.config/have nothing related to this process :(