Title: Debian: Stopping a service from starting at startup Tags: unix|unix-debian|unix-debian-services Date: 2012-12-23 08:17:29 -0500 Author: Denevell
To remove a service, apache2 in this case, from running at all runlevels:
update-rc.d -f apache2 remove
This will remove the apache2 file (located in /etc/init.d/) symlink from all the /etc/rcX.d/ directories.
To simply stop a service:
service apache2 stop
You can replace stop with start to start it.