Re: avoid starting a program during reboot

[Lars Noodén <lars.nooden@gmail.com>]

On 9/9/13 1:16 PM, lina wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I do not want to start some program, such as apache server, during reboot,
> 
> shall I simply remove it from /etc/init.d/ ?
> 
> haha ... is it a bit brutal? or lack elegance?
> 
> THanks with best regards,

Your default runlevel is 2, so you would look in /etc/rc2.d/ for the
script to remove, actually it is a symlink there.  If you want to do it
officially, you could use 'update-rc.d'

	update-rc.d -f apache2 remove

That should get it from all the rc?.d directories.

Regards,
/Lars