I'm setting up lighty according to this guide, and I don't really have an use for the lighttpd daemon that was installed (this is the one that resides in /etc/init.d/lighttpd). I don't want a webserver running all the time, except when I'm working. I want to just call lighttpd -Df lighttpd.conf when I need to.
How can I disable this ?
You can disable lighttpd on boot with the following command.
sudo update-rc.d -f lighttpd remove
This is a script which will remove the lighttpd start up script from the following locations:
/etc/rc0.d
/etc/rc1.d
/etc/rc2.d
/etc/rc3.d
/etc/rc4.d
/etc/rc5.d
/etc/rc6.d
/etc/rcS.d
To re-enable lighttpd you can run the following command:
sudo update-rc.d lighttpd defaults
Hope that helps
Our with systemd:
prompt$ sudo systemctl disable lighttpd
You may also want to
prompt$ sudo systemctl stop lighttpd
as disable does not stop any running server.
systemd pretty much falls back to SysV handling and runs a script that does what Oliver mentioned in his answer (as far as I know)
Synchronizing state of lighttpd.service with SysV init with
/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install disable lighttpd
Eventually evaluating
$CHROOT /usr/sbin/update-rc.d "$NAME" defaults
$CHROOT /usr/sbin/update-rc.d "$NAME" disable
(On a Fedora box when looking)
