[plug] APM daemon

[Leon Brooks]

Len Bird wrote:
> I have loaded Redhat 6.0 on a machine that is a little tight for disk
> space and accordingly left out what I believed was not essential in the
> installation.

Such as Gnome and Enlightenment? (-:

Actually, the foreign HOWTOs, particularly (surprise! :-) the French
ones, chew up a lot of space and can generally be safely removed.

> During the boot up sequence I get a "FAILED"  message in respect of the
> APM daemon. Unfortunately I would would not know the said eveil spirit
> from the neighbour's house cat. The system nevertheless seems to
> function normally despite the missing daemon. Can anyone enlighten me as
> to where this device is located in the installation options, and what
> it's purpose is.

To put your machine to sleep if it is not busy.

As root, type this...

rm /etc/rc*.d/[SK][0-9]*apmd

..to make the worrisome message disappear.