How to remove a daemon from auto-starting at boot?

[Q-collective]

So, probably an easy question, but I can't find the answer straight away.

I have a backup service running, CrashPlan, which is using my external hard disk as one backup destination. However, at boot time I don't always have the disk plugged in. So, what does CrashPlan do? It just creates a /media/<username>/System Backup directory on its own and starts backing up... on my internal hard drive...

So, I rather just want to avoid having the crashplan daemon in /etc/init.d start up at boot time, so I can do that myself on an as-needed basis. The question is: How do I do that?

In Gentoo I would just run as root:

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rc-update del crashplan boot

Which would remove the crashplan from the bootlevel. What is the equivalent on Mint?

[bigj231]

I think you just need to remove it from/comment it out of your /etc/rc.local. I'm not 100% sure on that though.

[Q-collective]

I think you just need to remove it from/comment it out of your /etc/rc.local. I'm not 100% sure on that though.

The /etc/rc.local is empty by default. Do I have to manually edit it? Or is there a tool (eg like Gentoo's rc-update) that does it for me?

[catweazel]

See if it's listed in Startup Applications, in Start menu.

[Q-collective]

See if it's listed in Startup Applications, in Start menu.

I might be mistaking, but doesn't Startup Applications only list user level applications?

I'm not at home right now but did open SA yesterday for another little tweak and don't remember seeing crashplan there.

[bigj231]

Yes, the rc.local is empty by default, but you could kill/stop crashplan upon boot by adding a line to it. see:http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/04/get-to ... directory/ More specifically, use something like:

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/etc/init.d/crashplan stop

Of course, use the correct script name there.

I don't know of a utility that will update your rc.local for you. To be honest, I just manually edited it when I was running Gentoo.

[eanfrid]

If the service is managed by upstart, you have at least 2 solutions to prevent its start at boot:

- locate the right .conf file under /etc/init and rename it with anything that does not end with .conf*
or (better)
- comment the line "start on..." by adding a leading # there

cf: http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/#dis ... y-starting

[Q-collective]

Ok, thanks for these replies. I'll try them as soon as I get home