How to stop unwanted servrices during boot

[Wouter Eerdekens]

I feel it's time to end this discussion, so I wrote a little roundup on 
it. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Here it is:

- Editing the initscripts to not start the service is the best method we
   have for now.
- Removing the symlinks from /etc/rc?.d directories is better, but it's
   a bit of a hassle to re-enable the service later on.
- Disabling the service by issuing chmod -x is an ugly hack and should
   be avoided.
- In the future, all initscripts should have a /etc/default/<service>
   file in which we can choose whether or not to start the service at
   boottime. If it's going to be this approach or something else is
   another discussion, but we certainly need something.

But the wiki tells the users in the Ubuntu Bootup Howto[1] that the 
chmod approach is 'more straightforward' than removing the symlinks.
Shouldn't this page be updated with the results of this discussion?
I can do this, but I need to know what we should be telling the user 
instead.

[1] http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UbuntuBootupHowto

Cheers,
Wouter

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