How to disable openssh-server & my sql server from startup services?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 09 March 2014 12:46:58 Karl Auer did opine:

> On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 10:40 +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote:
> > locate the scripts in /etc/init.d and then do a chmod -x
> 
> No, DON'T do that.
> 
> a) the OP said quite clearly that he was using upstart-controlled
> programs
> 
> b) using chmod in /etc/init.d will have no effect on most
> upstart-controlled programs
> 
> c) for programs not controlled by upstart, you will then also be unable
> to start the scripts manually (at least not without doing something like
> "sudo sh /etc/init.d/progname")
> 
> d) it's ugly. Read "man update-rc.d" instead
> 
> Regards, K.

Thank you Karl, I was not, even after all this time, aware of such a tool.  
So I read the man page.  It looks a lot like chkconfig but with somewhat 
more opaque docs.  I don't consider it an improvement, but I am not manning 
the tiller here either.

Cheers, Gene
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