Disable unwanted services, like Apache and Avahi

[nolo...@gmail.com]

Hi Everyone,

I have a BeagleBone Black. It is running a Debian 8.2 flasher image from December 2015. I want to free resources by pruning the running config a bit, but its not clear to me how to do so.

I was able to locate one question on running web servers at:

 * http://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/beagleboard/disable$20apache/beagleboard/TGRq85quS8c/wHoqPWOzIXYJ

And one Stack Overflow question on beaglebone services at (SO is such a dumping ground...):

* http://stackoverflow.com/a/16570889/608639

How do I stop the following services:

 * web related services, like Apache
 * sound related services, like Avahi
 * windows managers, like LXDE

The BBB seems to be different even though its running a Debian image, so I don't want to risk breaking the configuration. My apologies if I missed a discussion of the topic.

Thanks in advance.

[Mike]

> --
systemd unless you reverted to sysv...

Mike

[c...@isbd.net]

nolo...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> I have a BeagleBone Black. It is running a Debian 8.2 flasher image from
> December 2015. I want to free resources by pruning the running config a
> bit, but its not clear to me how to do so.
>

[snip]

> How do I stop the following services:
>
> * web related services, like Apache
> * sound related services, like Avahi
> * windows managers, like LXDE
>

The (fairly) obvious way to do this is simply to uninstall them:-

apt-get remove apache2

(you need to be root or prefix with 'sudo').

It's easy enough, if you want them back at some later date, to
re-install them. You may have to work out the full package names to
use with 'apt-get remove'. You can either use 'apt-cache search' or
'dpkg -l | grep <name>'.


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Chris Green
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[Mark A. Yoder]

A simple script I use is:

# Turn off some services

cd /etc/init.d/

mkdir -p hide

mv apache2 hide

This keeps apache from starting a boot time, but it also makes it easy to undo the change by simply moving apache2 out of the hide folder if you want it to start again.

--Mark