disabling services on boot

[Kees Cook]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 04:30:18PM -0500, James Dinkel wrote:
> I want to disable a couple services from starting at boot on Ubuntu JEOS
> 8.04.1.  Would the proper way be to just delete the symlinks in the
> /etc/rc#.d/ folders?

I've tended to use:

if [ -f /etc/init.d/$SERV ]; then
        /usr/sbin/invoke-rc.d $SERV stop
        /usr/sbin/update-rc.d $SERV remove
fi

where SERV is the service I want to stop and leave disabled.
("update-rc.d ... remove" basically does what you were suggesting.)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team