Re: Starting Appletalk services...

[Eric P <eric.maillist@gmail.com>]

michael@etalon.net wrote:
> Quoting Eric P <eric.maillist@gmail.com>:
> 
>> "Starting Appletalk services (this may take a while)"
>>
>> Yes, it sure does.  What services are these anyway?  It seems to add
>> 10-15 seconds to boot time on my 1.5 GHz box.
> 
> 
> This is the netatalk service. Which allows your system to act as
> a file server for Mac OS clients. It doesn't matter how fast your system
> is, the nature of afpd will always "...take a while ".
> 
> Just remove it from your rc.d and it won't start on boot up.
> 
Thanks.

I just removed the whole netatalk package.

Eric P.