How to disable port/service in Ubuntu 8.04

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Aug 29 00:46:31 UTC 2008


Ashish Yadav wrote:

> How can I disable port/service in Ubuntu 8.04.
> 
> I looked at lot of upstart related info but there is no clear cut info for
> that.

It's not upstart related, except in the most nebulous of ways.

> For example http://upstart.ubuntu.com/getting-started.html describes
> to look into "/etc/inittab", but I don't have that file on my system.

Just as well, you wouldn't have wanted to play with that when it did
exist :-)
 
> I also don't have "/etc/init" directory as described.

I _very_ much doubt you were told that.  It's /etc/init.d/, and you have
it - trust me.
-- 
derek





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