The /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/maintenance script runs during the nightly cPanel & WHM update process. The script provides security updates and automatically restarts services. However, automatic restarts may cause essential services to lose connection to the server. If these services lose connection to the server, that server may become inaccessible.
Disabled services reside in the /var/cpanel/disabled directory.
Disable Services
To disable a service, log in to your server’s command line as the root user and add one of the following touch files to the /var/cpanel/disabled directory: