How to delay a service startup (i.e. don't run at boot time, but start later)?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, den 02.08.2020, 11:52 +0100 schrieb Chris Green:
> I have a service (minidlna to be specific) that I want to leave 'as
> installed' from the Ubuntu repositories but I don't want it to start
> at boot time.  I need to start it later after a number of file
> systems
> have appeared.
> 
> So is there a way of disabling start at boot time but allowing
> 'service minidlna start' some time later?

This might be a stupid idea, but I think you can start a service even
when it is disabled. So you might just disable it, and start it
manually later. I might be wrong, however.

Bye
Volker