I'm setting up lighty according to this guide, and I don't really have an use for the lighttpd daemon that was installed (this is the one that resides in /etc/init.d/lighttpd). I don't want a webserver running all the time, except when I'm working. I want to just call lighttpd -Df lighttpd.conf when I need to.
How can I disable this ?
You can disable lighttpd on boot with the following command.
sudo update-rc.d -f lighttpd remove
This is a script which will remove the lighttpd start up script from the following locations:
/etc/rc0.d
/etc/rc1.d
/etc/rc2.d
/etc/rc3.d
/etc/rc4.d
/etc/rc5.d
/etc/rc6.d
/etc/rcS.d
To re-enable lighttpd you can run the following command:
sudo update-rc.d lighttpd defaults
Hope that helps