How to disable mysqld in 10.04?

Question

I have a few (Linode) Ubuntu 10.04 (64bit) VPSes, and mysqld keeps starting on every reboot on all of them --

$ uptime
 16:32:26 up 1 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.07

$ ps -ef | grep -i mysqld | grep -v grep
mysql     2364     1  0 16:17 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/mysqld

$ sudo sysv-rc-conf --list mysql
mysql        2:off      3:off   4:off   5:off

$ sudo chkconfig -l mysql
mysql        0:off  1:off  2:off  3:off  4:off  5:off  6:off

$ sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop

$ !ps
ps -ef | grep -i mysqld | grep -v grep

How else can I turn it off?

P.S. I raised this question to Linode but they are unable to answer.

Answer 1

If you don't need mysql, why not remove it altogether?

sudo apt-get remove mysql-server

should do the trick

Answer 2

Add an upstart script that turns it off after it starts...or edit the upstart script for mysql to do nothing.