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Is there an elegant way, other than messing with /etc/rc?.d, to control the daemon loading at boot time?

My personal concern is stopping Nginx from loading at boot, while setting lighttpd to do load at boot.

Thanks in advance, Adam

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  • @karthick87: Startup applications is for gnome session apps, not for system daemons Nov 29, 2010 at 16:22
  • Oke what abt update-rc.d?
    – karthick87
    Nov 29, 2010 at 16:44

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The proper way to manage service daemons is managing links on /etc/rc?.d, there are some tools which allow you to easily manage the startup order without having to manually change the links. Install the package "sysv-rc-conf" and run "sysv-rc-conf" from the terminal.

Please note that it doesn't allow you to manage services which use the new Ubuntu init system (upstart), there is no easy way to manage those yet.

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  • what versions are using upstart?
    – Adam Matan
    Nov 29, 2010 at 16:41
  • Services using upstart have a .conf file at /etc/init/ , to disable services on upstart the easier way is to rename their .conf file to .conf.disable . Nov 29, 2010 at 16:46

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