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

[Tom H]

On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 3:40 AM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-03-09 at 12:49 +0530, Navdeep Singh Sidhu wrote:
>>
>> But how to disable them from starting on startup, bcz these tools made my
>> computer bootup very slow. Using ubuntu 12.04.
>
> Locate the upstart configuration files for the programs; they should be
> in /etc/init
>
> Using your favourite text editor, add the single word "manual" after
> anything else in the "start on" section for the programs' config files.
>
> After you save your changes, you will find that the programs will only
> start when you ask them to - not on startup. However, they will still
> STOP under the same conditions as before. If you want to prevent that
> too, change the "stop on" stanza as well. Not recommended for MySQL,
> which definitely should be shut down in an orderly fashion.
>
> For full details on these config files, see "man 5 init". From that man
> page:
>
>    manual This stanza will disregard any previously seen start on
>           definition.  By adding this stanza on any line below the
>           start on definition,  it provides the ability to stop a
>           job from being automatically started. When specified,
>           the only way to start such a job is via start (8).

Rather then edit "/etc/init/<daemon>.conf", do "echo manual >
/etc/init/<daemon>.override".