Note that finally, with 16.04, you can block the (ridiculous) auto start behavior of daemons installed via apt using systemd features: https://major.io/2016/05/

Note that finally, with 16.04, you can block the (ridiculous) auto start behavior of daemons installed via apt using systemd features: https://major.io/2016/05/05/preventing-ubuntu-16-04-starting-daemons-package-installed/ https://major.io/2016/05/05/preventing-ubuntu-16-04-starting... It's always angered me that packages start running before I have a chance to configure them... With some, like MySQL, it means if I want to change certain settings, I also have to clean up some other files before restarting the service or the package will not start. On CentOS/RHEL, this is never an issue.