As the man pages also say, removing the S* symlinks is not sufficient to declare that the service should NOT be running in that runlevel -- you need to replace them with K* symlinks
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected -- invoke-rc.d starting services that it shouldn't in my runlevel https://launchpad.net/bugs/71231 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs