[aklug] Disabling and Enabling daemons (services) in Ubuntu

I just installed PostgreSQL on Ubuntu so I can learn some SQL programming.

I also want to install Mysql as well so I can try them both. After
postgreSQL and apache I went to /etc/inetd.conf only to find it empty.
I then remembered reading an article on www.slashdot.org about Ubuntu,
Apple, and Sun all ditching Inetd for a more modern event driven way
to bootstrap a modern system.

Ubuntu breaks traditional Unix which uses something called upstart.
This is quite a bit of a change for me from FreeBSD where you simply
vi into /etc/intetd.conf and remark the daemons you do not want to
startup. I am aware SysV Unix such as Linux instead uses rc runlevels
and I completely forgot this.

I googled upstart and found technical usage and howtos to run complex
event driven scripts using Dbus. I do not want to go this route and
make my computer unbootable by a single mistake in a script. I simply
want to just enable or disable startup daemons.

Is there a way to simply disable and re-enable a daemon with upstart
on ubuntu by just using a single command or gui?
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Received on Sun Feb 28 17:35:02 2010