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Disabling an app/process from starting at boot

Asked by William Pabon

Hi:
I installed a small program that starts every time I boot the system (it is not in Start Up Applications and it shows in the process list) . I don't want to uninstall it, I just want to stop it from starting when I boot, like you do by disabling a service in Windows. How do I do this in Ubuntu 12.04? Thanks.

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N1ck 7h0m4d4k15 (nicktux) said : 		#1

Hello,

are you sure that is not in startup applications ?

Open a terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and give some results that might help us to understand what is going on with this app

  ls /etc/xdg/autostart

  ls .config/autostart/

  ls /etc/init.d/

Also tell us which application is this and how you installed it.

Regards
 NikTh

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William Pabon (williepabon) said : 		#2

Nik.Th.:
Thanks for answering so fast. While sending my question, I also did some digging related to the app, and basically found the answer. Hamachi is a virtual networking service that works in the background to provide secure remote access to your equipment. Reading the literature I found that you can stop it by executing:

/etc/init.d/logmein-hamachi stop

It won't automatically start again until I do:

/etc/init.d/logmein-hamachi start

I wonder if this procedure is typical for starting/stopping processes that run in the background.
Thanks again.
wp