Disable autostart from mysql

[Hartmut]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Hartmut <freemlist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> how can I disable the autostart from mysql during boot? I removed
>> mysql from all runlevels with 'sudo update-rc.d -f mysql remove', but
>> mysql is still running after system boot.
>
> I think that mysql's been "upstarted" and its startup is controlled
> through "/etc/init/mysql.conf".

The file /etc/init/mysql.conf contains
----------
start on (net-device-up
          and local-filesystems
          and runlevel [2345])
----------
Is it clever to remove the content between the brackets? Or isn't this
a good idea?