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Removing Some Services
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 2:58 pm
by Graham
I'd like to be able to stop/disable the following services in Vesta:
bind9
exim
dovecot
vsftpd
Does anyone know if it's possible to do this from the control panel or do I need to change config files somewhere.
Thanks
Re: Removing Some Services
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 10:32 pm
by skid
You can stop them using "services" page which can be accessed from top menu.
If you want to completely disable them use update-rc.d command
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update-rc.d -f %service_name% remove
Re: Removing Some Services
Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 6:12 am
by Graham
Thanks skid.
I hadn't realised it would be that simple :)
I'd already shutdown bind9 and exim4 from the services page, dovecot/vsftpd just refuse to stop though. I'll see if I can work out why.
Re: Removing Some Services
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:39 pm
by Graham
Graham wrote:Thanks skid.
I hadn't realised it would be that simple :)
I'd already shutdown bind9 and exim4 from the services page, dovecot/vsftpd just refuse to stop though. I'll see if I can work out why.
Hi Skid,
nothing I do appears to stop dovecot from running. I even tried disabling as per your earlier post and restarting the server:
Re: Removing Some Services
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 7:50 pm
by skid
Sorry, I forgot about upstart. Dovecot's init script has been converted to upstart job.
You can disable it like this
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echo 'manual' > /etc/init/dovecot.override
To get full list of upstart jobs run
So on Ubuntu some services like apache2, nginx, exim are using sysv init scripts to startup, but vast majority of them has been converted to upstart jobs.