Removing Some Services

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

Hi Skid,

nothing I do appears to stop dovecot from running. I even tried disabling as per your earlier post and restarting the server:

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update-rc.d -f dovecot remove

[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

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initctl list

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.