Can't stop service in Vesta Control Panel

Question

Hi everyone

I have a problem.

1. I stopped service named, exim and dovecot, but after a period of time, these services auto started again. Until now, I don't know why this happen even though, I was tried search for this issue but can't find out anything. please help me how to solve this problem..

Thank you so much!!!

Answer 1

it just about when you create web domain, but have check the option DNS support and mail support. So, vesta will start service named and dovecot. you just ceate a cronjob with these command:

sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-stop-service dovecot sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-stop-service named sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-stop-service exim

or, in the server, add these command line

JOB='8' MIN='0' HOUR='/6' DAY='' MONTH='' WDAY='' CMD='sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-stop-service exim' SUSPENDED='no' TIME='12:32:31' DATE='2014-05-22' JOB='9' MIN='0' HOUR='/6' DAY='' MONTH='' WDAY='' CMD='sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-stop-service named' SUSPENDED='no' TIME='12:32:05' DATE='2014-05-22' JOB='10' MIN='0' HOUR='/6' DAY='' MONTH='' WDAY='' CMD='sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-stop-service dovecot' SUSPENDED='no' TIME='12:31:50' DATE='2014-05-22'

if you have any issue, give me message :)

Answer 2

This works for me:

Login as root on your server and force-stop the services:

service named stop

service exim stop

service dovecot stop

Next is to configure VestaCP to not start the services when the server is beeing rebooted:

chkconfig named off

chkconfig exim off

chkconfig dovecot off

And you're done. You can check by rebooting the server. You can also do this with other services: clamd, spamassasin (if you installed the high ram VestaCP version and don't need the mail services)_ httpd, nginx, mysqld and vsftpd (for if you make a dns-only server)

You get the point, hope this works. Good luck