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Evgenyt
Asked: 2010-06-18 02:14:40 +0800 CST

Any way to make service do not autostart in Ubuntu/Debian, but leave K00 scripts in place?

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I need to have only stop scripts in rcN.d (runlevels 0,1,6) for apache2. So that I always start it by myself, but when reboot occurs server will shut down apache2 properly. And when I change runlevel 2-3 server doesnt' touch apache daemon (leaving it in the state it is).

Basically, I just need a legal way to remove apache2 startup symlinks from rc2.d -> rc5.d. With tools like update-rc.d.

I can just remove those symlinks by hands, but I'm not sure if this is a proper way for this.

ubuntu debian init runlevel

4 Answers

  1. This should do the trick :

    update-rc.d apache2 disable

    Basically update-rc.d will modify existing runlevel links for the script /etc/init.d/apache2 by renaming start links to stop links.

    If you wanted to disable only runlevel 2 and 5, you could do :

    update-rc.d apache2 disable 2 5

    nico

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  2. sysv-rc-conf

    is the new way to do this job.

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  3. Best Answer

    You can remove symblinks by hands, there is no problem to do that this way if you know what you are doing.

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  4. update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
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