Not able to disable the cups service using boot-up manager

Question

In the bootup-manager, I have disabled cups because I don't have any printers connected to my laptop. But, still the cups service gets automatically started. How to disable such services? BTW, I am using 14.04.

I changed the permission of the /etc/init.d/cups* files to 000 and still on reboot I see the services when I run the ps -aef | grep -i cups command.

praveensripati@MyUbuntuLaptop:/etc/init.d$ ls -ltr cups*
---------- 1 root root 3184 Apr  3 22:19 cups
---------- 1 root root 1961 Apr  7 21:04 cups-browsed

praveensripati@MyUbuntuLaptop:/etc/init.d$ ps -aef | grep -i cups
root      1154     1  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
root      3083     1  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -f
lp        3087  3083  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus:// 
lp        3088  3083  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus:// 
lp        3089  3083  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus:// 
lp        3090  3083  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus:// 
lp        3091  3083  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus:// 
praveen+  3466  3129  0 18:33 pts/14   00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i cups

Answer 1

To disable the cups service via upstart, try running the following as root:

echo "manual" > /etc/init/cups.override

You can become root by running: sudo -s or su

Taken from the Upstart Cookbook

This stanza will tell Upstart to ignore the start on / stop on stanzas. It is useful for keeping the logic and capability of a job on the system while not having it automatically start at boot-up.

Example:

manual