How to stop services from automatically starting at boot time

systemlordanubis · 01-04-2012, 07:32 PM

Hi All,

I have a server which I want my own scripts to configure before they boot. Is there a way that I can stop the services from initially loading at boot time for my script to start after configuration?

The services I'm interested in are:

ntp
snmp
rsyslog
dhcpd

This is on Debian 6.0

Thanks
Anubis.

jhwilliams · 01-04-2012, 07:47 PM

Something like this would work:

sudo update-rc.d utility_name disable, e.g.

Code:

sudo update-rc.d ntp disable

Read the man page for more details. There are variations in the arguments that script accepts across the various Debain/Ubuntu flavors. Sadly I don't have a Debian 6 system in front of me.

disable might be a Ubuntu thing. If so, use remove instead.

systemlordanubis · 01-04-2012, 07:49 PM

Hi There,

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give that a try!

Thanks
Anubis.

sleddog · 01-05-2012, 05:36 AM

Debian 6 is most likely using the dependency boot system, so you'd use 'insserv' instead of 'update-rc.d':

insserv -r ntp