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

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Mon Mar 01 2010 - 09:53:58 AKST

According to the help printed out by update-rc.d you just type:

update-rc.d <service_name> defaults

j

On Sunday 28 February 2010, Tim Gibney elucidated thus:
> How do you renable it? I tried using update-rc.d and it complained
> about using headers and putting a K or S infront of the daemon name.
> There was a program in older versions of ubuntu called "services" but
> i have a feeling its not compatible because Ubuntu no longer uses
> Sysvinit. I can look it up and just rename the programs in /etc/rc.2
> or where the runlevel program names are stored.
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Joshua J. Kugler
<joshua@eeinternet.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 28 February 2010, Tim Gibney elucidated thus:
> >> 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?
> >
> > I believe this command still works:
> >
> > update-rc.d -f <service_name> remove
> >
> > j
> >
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