[SOLVED]disabeling services at boot

[Tex-Twil]

Hello,
I would like to disable some services (e.g. samba) from starting at boot (Mint 10). In previous versions of Mint, I just searched the scripts in /etc/rc?.d directories and added/deleted the links either manually or using update-rc.d.

Now there is a new "service" but the man page is very poor and I can't see any smbd files in the rc directories. Where/how are the services managed now ? How can I for example disable smbd from stating at boot ?


thanks,
Tex

[altair4]

This is actually a very confusing process these days. Here's my best shot at explaining this.

Services / daemons are now controlled by two different process - the "old" System-V process and Upstart.

System-V scripts are located at /etc/init.d and to find the status of them you issue the following command:

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sudo service --status-all

A "+" means it's running, a "-" means it's not, and a "?" means it's not a system-v job. You will notice that smbd gets a "?"

Upstart jobs are "referenced" in /etc/init.d but they eventually find their way to scripts in /etc/init. To find the status of upstart jobs you run the following command:

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sudo initctl list

You will notice that smbd is listed.

update-rc.d, sysv-rc-conf and bum are tools for managing System-V style init scripts. They are not able to manage Upstart jobs.

The only way at the moment afaik to stop an upstart job is to edit the startup script. For smbd for example, edit /etc/init/smbd.conf and comment out the "start on" line :

description "SMB/CIFS File Server"
author "Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com>"

#start on (local-filesystems and stopped rc)
stop on runlevel [!2345]

respawn

pre-start script
RUN_MODE="daemons"

[ -r /etc/default/samba ] && . /etc/default/samba

[ "$RUN_MODE" = inetd ] && { stop; exit 0; }

install -o root -g root -m 755 -d /var/run/samba
end script

exec smbd -F

[Tex-Twil]

ok thanks for the explanation.