What's the recommend way to enable / disable services?

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Published on 2010-12-29T21:03:32Z Indexed on 2012/06/30 21:25 UTC
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I read about how to enable and disable services in Ubuntu and it seems that there are different possibilities manage theme?

The first method i found is update-rc.d to add new services to startup, which aims on the /etc/init.d folder and it's contents.

The other one i found is the way to edit .conf the files in /etc/init folder.

What's the recommended way to enable / disable / add services and why?

Could you please give a short bulletproof step by step example how to add a service xyz in Ubuntu and enable and disable it?

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