Prevent Mysql starting at boot

[Luis Paulo]

2010/4/28 刘勇泰 <lytric at gmail.com>:
> Thanks for you links, they are worthy to be read. Maybe the directory layout
> of lucid is different from karmic's? I got /etc/init.d AND /etc/init . The
> former contains init scripts and the latter contains init daemon job
> configuration(see manpage init(5)).
>
> The content of my /etc/init/mysql.conf is:
>
> # MySQL Service
>
> description     "MySQL Server"
> author          "Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com>"
>
> start on (net-device-up
>           and local-filesystems)
> stop on runlevel [016]
>
> respawn
>
> env HOME=/etc/mysql
> umask 007
>
> pre-start script
>     #Sanity checks
>     [ -r $HOME/my.cnf ]
>     [ -d /var/run/mysqld ] || install -m 755 -o mysql -g root -d
> /var/run/mysqld
>     LC_ALL=C BLOCKSIZE= df --portability /var/lib/mysql/. | tail -n 1 | awk
> '{ exit ($4<4096) }'
> end script
>
> exec /usr/sbin/mysqld
>
> post-start script
>     while ! /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=$HOME/debian.cnf ping
>     do
>         sleep 1
>     done
>     exec $HOME/debian-start
> end script
>
> It causes mysql starting when network device and locale file system are
> ready. At first I only removed init script symbolic links in /etc/rc*.d, it
> didn't work. And now I also commented out the "start on" lines in
> mysql.conf, it's done.
>
> On 2010-04-28 02:31 +0100，Luis Paulo wrote：

> At /etc/init there are no configuration files, only scripts (usualy
> refered as init scripts).
> Configuration files should be in /etc. Right?

Ahh. Ok. I meant /etc/init.d, I didn't even knew about /etc/init,
sorry. But I have it on karmic, yes. Not on hardy.

I need a refresh on upstart, I see.

Thanks, and thank you also, Nils