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

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 02:41:54PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 at 11:54, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
> 
> sudo systemctl disable theservice
> 
> then to start it
> 
> sudo systemctl start theservice
> 
But will that service be disabled at the next reboot?

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Chris Green