It sounds like your path isn't getting set. chkconfig is the correct command to enable and disable services at boot, but your syntax isn't correct. Check the man page. It should be something like: chkconfig --level 0123456 vsftpd off ace writes: > Hello all, > > My friend has just downloaded and installed Fedora Core Three on his > system. He isn't using Speakup; he has enough vision to read the > console. However, I have a few problems. I administer the box remotely > with him. We are having problems such as paths not being set (he has to do > /usr/spin/adduser instead of just adduser), yum says something about how we > set it to use GPG keys when we didn't!. Yum said to type rpm --import > public.GPG.key and when I did this, I got an error. > > So, what's the problem? Is Core 3 royally screwed or is it us? another > thing, a friend told me to type chkconfig vsftpd off to turn off VSFTPD, > that returned command not found. I want to disable VSFTPD > permanently. Thanks a lot. > > Robby > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040