From: Anand Sivaram on
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 04:29, Stan Hoeppner <stan(a)hardwarefreak.com> wrote:

> Allan Wind put forth on 5/13/2010 10:13 AM:
> > I use insserv to boot my laptop and used `update-rc.d apache2
> > remove` to indicate that I do not want apache2 to start on
> > reboot. Indeed this works fine for while. Either an apache2
> > (apache2.2-common upgrade) or some other package install/upgrade
> > then seems to revert my choice and apache is once again started
> > in reboot.
> >
> > Is there a better way to disable servers from starting?
>
> I just remove the apache link in /etc/rc*.d
>
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You could also update /etc/init.d/apache2, change
the run levels to Defaut-stop