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Temporarily disable a service

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I need to temporarily disable automatic management for a service on Ubuntu (using Upstart). I know I can remove the service startup/shutdown configuration via

update-rd.d -f SERVICE remove

but that would completely remove the configuration. I just want to disable automatic start/stop temporarily.

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update-rc.d is for managing System-V init scripts (in /etc/init.d), not Upstart jobs (in /etc/init). To temporarily disable services started by init scripts run

update-rc.d -f SERVICE disable

Re-enable by running

update-rc.d -f SERVICE enable

Replace SERVICE with the actual name of your service.

To temporarily disable Upstart jobs create a file with the same name as the service and the extension .override in the Upstart config directory. The content of the file should be just the word "manual."

echo 'manual' > /etc/init/SERVICE.override

Again, replace SERVICE with the actual name of your service.

With that file in place you can still manually start and stop the service (e.g. service SERVICE stop), but Ubuntu will no longer automatically start the service at system startup. If you create the file before installing the package the system also won't automatically start the service during installation.

Remove /etc/init/SERVICE.override to restore the default behavior.

For more information about Upstart overrides see here.

Addendum: On Ubuntu update-rc.d -f SERVICE disable also disables Upstart jobs, not just SysV init scripts.


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