disable upstart job

[Tom H]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:27 PM, Tom Jones <tom at oxix.org> wrote:
>
> The question is how, in general, does one disable an upstart job?
>
> Creating /etc/init/network-manager.override with "manual" in it
> doesn't work.  Removing /etc/init/network-manager altogether does
> work.  Is this expected, and if so based on what documentation /
> interface specification?
>
> [1] <http://askubuntu.com/questions/19320/how-to-enable-or-disable-services>

As your link says "echo manual | sudo tee /etc/init/network-manager.override".

It works for me on 14.04 and 15.04.

Do you have a typo in either "manual" or "network-manager.override"?