Disable services on startup in ubuntu

disable-service-on-startup-ubuntu.md

systemctl disable <service> If you are not using systemd (Ubuntu 14.10 and earlier) use:

update-rc.d -f <service> remove The following command will give you a list of all services on your machine:

service --status-all Example disable Nginx

systemctl disable nginx
// reenable
systemctl enable nginx

For more details, see enabling-and-disabling-services and for the very long answer see this post (as already mentioned by @muru).

For more details, see this post on Digital Ocean and the man page for systemctl.