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I have tried all the suggestions in hours of googling and still when I reboot and run service mysql status my server is running. since i only use mysql for database testing with my java apps i don't need it running all the time.

i tried renaming mysql.conf to mysql.conf.old and that just diabled mysql from even manually starting.

i've also tried update-rc.d disable to no effect.

i also tried using bum and looking for mysql but it does not have a checkmark even tho it obviously is starting up on reboot.

thanks for your help!

updated with requested output: $ ls /etc/rc2.d/myslq ls: cannot access /etc/rc2.d/myslq: No such file or directory

$ dpkg -l | grep mysql

ii libdbd-mysql-perl 4.025-1 amd64 Perl5 database interface to the MySQL database ii libmysqlclient18:amd64 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 amd64 MySQL database client library ii libmysqlcppconn7 1.1.3-5 amd64 MySQL Connector for C++ (library) ii mysql-apt-config 0.5.3-1 all Auto configuration for MySQL APT Repo. ii mysql-client-5.5 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 amd64 MySQL database client binaries ii mysql-client-core-5.5 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 amd64 MySQL database core client binaries ii mysql-common 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 all MySQL database common files, e.g. /etc/mysql/my.cnf rc mysql-common-5.6 5.6.27-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 all MySQL 5.6 specific common files, e.g. /etc/mysql/conf.d/my-5.6.cnf ic mysql-server-5.5 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 amd64 MySQL database server binaries and system database setup rc mysql-server-5.6 5.6.27-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 amd64 MySQL database server binaries and system database setup ii mysql-server-core-5.5 5.5.46-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 amd64 MySQL database server binaries ii mysql-workbench 6.0.8+dfsg-2 amd64 MySQL Workbench - a visual database modeling, administration and queuing tool ii mysql-workbench-data 6.0.8+dfsg-2 all MySQL Workbench -- architecture independent data ii python-mysql.connector 1.1.6-1 all pure Python implementation of MySQL Client/Server protocol

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  • what is the ouput of sudo runlevel?
    – Rui F Ribeiro
    Nov 16 '15 at 18:26
  • the output of sudo runlevel = N 2
    – flyingdrifter
    Nov 17 '15 at 19:05
  • could you please show us the output of the command "ls /etc/rc2.d/*myslq* " and "dpkg -l | grep mysql"
    – Rui F Ribeiro
    Nov 17 '15 at 19:08
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I think the easiest way is to install a ncurses-based command line tool called sysv-rc-conf:

sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf

then run it as superuser:

sudo sysv-rc-conf

And uncheck all the boxes on every runlevel in mysql row. Example screen of the program pasted below:

sysv-rc-conf

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  • I actually prefer installing chkconfig
    – Rui F Ribeiro
    Nov 17 '15 at 19:07
  • this looks like an interesting application, can i still turn on mysql manually from the terminal? i'm worried i will be tempted to turn off things "i don't need" and my system won't start up (done that with windows ha!)
    – flyingdrifter
    Nov 18 '15 at 14:53

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