Disabled services are automatically re-enabled on update

Technical Support
1

OS Name/Version:
Ubuntu 18.04

Product Name/Version:
AMP Professional - every last update

Problem Description:
I have previously disabled some of the services, including ampinstmgr itself when I’m not currently using the server as I would like to manually start the service when I need it so save resources. However, after apt update all services are re-enabled.

Steps to reproduce:

  • Step 1
    Disable any AMP service with systemctl disable ampinstmgr
  • Step 2
    Update the AMP software via apt upgrade.
  • Step 3
    Observe any disabled services have been re-enabled to start automatically.

Actions taken to resolve so far:
None. I’m mostly just wondering if there’s a way to stop this from happening.

2

This is intentional. If you don’t want AMP to run on startup, flip the ‘start on boot’ flag for the main ADS instance via ampinstmgr setstartboot.

3

I’ll give that a try. Will that prevent the ampfirewall and amptasks services from starting as well?

4

No, but they won’t actually have anything to do if AMP isn’t running so they’re moot.

5

Ah… I’d still prefer they didn’t run at all, I guess I can just run a script after every update to disable them. Thanks for your help.