Start stop services controlled by upstart on karmic

[Tom H]

> What is the recommended best practice approach to disable services
> controlled by upstart (in the /etc/init folder rather than /etc/init.d)


To start and stop them:

initctl [start|stop] <service>

They have unfortunately reversed the Ubuntu/Debian invoke-rc.d and
RHEL/Fedora service:
invoke-rc.d <service> [start|stop]
service <service> [start|stop]
:(

But this was probably done because "start/stop" are symlinked to
"initctl" and you can just run "[start|stop] <service>". It is a pain
nonetheless when you get an error after "initctl <service>
[start|stop]" if your fingers are hard-wired to do the previous
invocations.


This is what I have done for avahi-daemon to disable it and start it
manually when needed:

I replaced:
start on ...
by:
start on (runlevel [!0123456])

This is my "recipe." I am not sure what the orthodox way is, and, if
it is documented, it is even better hidden than the Grub 2
documentation.