Troubleshooting boot problems

[Tom H]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Joao Pinto <joao.pinto at getdeb.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu>
> wrote:
>> > Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems
>> > From: Brian Vaughan <bgvaughan at gmail.com>
>> > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:53:30 -0700
>>
>> Next, suppose I don't want to run ufw -- what's the procedure for
>> turning this service off?  Deleting the ufw.conf script from /etc/init?
>>  This seems terribly irreversible.
>
> I have asked about this recently, implementation is pending:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/94065
>
> I don't know the answers for the others, I feel that the push of this
> features which require significant effort is being done at the cost of
> better documentation and missing features.

Commenting out the start stanza
# start ...
and change the stop stanza to
stop on runlevel [0123456]
seems to be a logical way of preventing an upstart job from running.

Or even commenting out the start stanza and adding
start on runlevel [!0123456]