How to set a Upstart job to start manually?

I want to disable a bunch of upstart jobs here. I know how to make a upstart job. And also I know how to stop manually a job. However, I can't find a sample where I turn a automatically job into a manually job. That is, I want the job to be started only when the user activate, for instance running this command (as root):

service job-name start

Solution 1:

Delete or comment out the start on part (using the number sign '#'). Commenting it out has the advantage of easy recoverability of the original state.

Solution 2:

Just for reference: Since upstart 0.6.7 (in Ubuntu since natty), there is a stanza called manual designed for just this purpose.

Solution 3:

As mentioned by @MvG, there is the manual stanza which declares an upstart service to be started manually only.

As root, put this into the .override file in /etc/init/ matching your job name:

echo "manual" > /etc/init/${JOB-NAME}.override

or using sudo:

echo "manual" | sudo tee /etc/init/${JOB-NAME}.override