How can I disable autostart for a service without uninstalling? For example, I'd like to leave tomcat installed, but I don't want it turning on every time I restart.
4 Answers
This should do the trick:
Open terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and enter the following command:
sudo update-rc.d tomcat disable
Basically update-rc.d
will modify existing runlevel links for the script /etc/init.d/tomcat
by renaming start links to stop links.
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If your tomcat is tomcat6 you will need to do "sudo update-rc.d tomcat6 disable" else you will get error.– DungJun 10, 2016 at 16:11
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Weirdly, this removed the links, and then created some new ones when I did it for postgresql. Dunno.– mlissnerMar 30, 2017 at 18:07
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You might want to consider this message in the
update-rc.d
:The disable|enable API is not stable and might change in the future.
Apr 18, 2017 at 18:34
More generic and more visual, with a nice UI: sysv-rc-conf
Uncheck the boxes for tomcat7 (runlevels 2 to 5), quit and that's it.
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cool, that's a tool I haven't seen before. It was useful to confirm that the
update-rc.d
command actually had worked– STWMar 19, 2014 at 1:14 -
This tool is great, it was the thing I was searching for. Thank you very much for it. Apr 24, 2014 at 7:07
The disable|enable
API is not stable and might change in the future. I suggest you use the following command to remove all the symlinks in /etc/rc?.d/
:
update-rc.d -f tomcat remove
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This one worked for me. I had uninstalled tomcat manually yet it was trying to shut it down before any reboot. Disable without -f parameter yelded "file does not exists".– ffflabsSep 2, 2013 at 11:54
For upstart jobs, you need to disable service like this (e.g. mysql):
$ sudo -s
# echo "manual" > /etc/init/mysql.override
# exit
or using this one-liner:
$ echo "manual" | sudo tee /etc/init/mysql.override > /dev/null
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+ 1 million, this is what worked for me. I was trying to stop transmission-daemon from starting on startup and the update-rc.d method used to work, but it looks like its been converted to an Upstart script now so this is the only method that works Mar 7, 2015 at 6:46
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Thanks, this worked for me and disabling mongodb! Couldn't seem to get it working with echo so I did it the oldschool
sudo vi /etc/init/mongodb.override
way– twigAug 10, 2016 at 0:43