Config | Tony Narlock

10Mar/100

Remove services (mpd) from system startup in Linux

I'm using MPD on Ubuntu and Debian and get annoyed by mpd starting at boot time under root.

Your startup services lie in the /etc/rc.d folder. You will observe that ls -l /etc/rc4.d for instance, will show you these files are weighted to run in order and symlink to their corresponding startup scripts in /etc/init.d.

To disable mpd, for instance, update-rc.d can help:

sudo update-rc.d -f mpd remove

Now you will be able to add mpd to a local user script on startup without having to sudo mpd --kill or sudo killall mpd.

Tagged as: Debian, init.d, linux, mpd, rc.d, services, symlink, Ubuntu, update-rc.d No Comments

24Nov/090

Xmonad and VIM

I was able to commit my Xmonad, xmobar, rxvt-unicode and VIM configuration files to github
You can check them out at:

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Howdy!

I'm Tony Narlock. I'm a web developer from Texas with a love of open source software. I'm a ubuntero, a bsd user, a rails scaffolder, a drupaller, and a new python programmer. I can currently be found reading VIM tips, python books, and spending a weekend by the fire cooking a new app.