Stop Services / Daemons Starting Up In Ubuntu

To remove daemons from starting up on boot use the following command:
sudo update-rc.d servicename remove
where servicename is the name of the service. To add the service to start up:
sudo update-rc.d servicename defaults
To see all your services go to /etc/rcX
.d where X is the runtime number (usually from 0-6).

Howto start stop services

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