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Prevent CrashPlan service from starting automatically on reboot
When you reboot the NAS, CrashPlan is set to start its service, right? It will do so even if I manually stopped it with "./CrashPlanEngine stop" before rebooting, correct? How do I prevent it fro...
If disable isn't available, then I'd either try chmod or break the symlink. You should be able to create a new symlink later on.
Okay, now I'm learning things about runlevels... Seems like default runlevel for the NAS is 2? in /etc/rc2.d there's S01readynas_startup and S99crashplan. This is the only runlevel where crashplan is it seems.
Also seems like this update-rc.d disable is a new feature that might not be available in this semi-old Linux environment?
So removing is more permanent. Why is the force flag needed? Seems like S99crashplan is just a symlink to /etc/init.d/crashplan, which is the real startup script? So if I delete it from rc.d and want to restore it, can I just manually recreate the symlink in /etc/rc2.d, call it S99crashplan, pointing at /etc/init.d/crashplan, and it will work? Or is there more to it? :smileytongue:
If disable isn't available, then I'd either try chmod or break the symlink. You should be able to create a new symlink later on.
Perfect. I used the chmod approach, so the system doesn't have access to run that script on boot (I'm guessing is what I did :smileyhappy:).
I verified with ./CrashPlanEngine status after a reboot and the service stayed off.
It's better where possible to use systemd service files rather rc.d scripts.
With systemd you have greater control over when the service starts, which services must start first etc.
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