“...I've been working since 2008 with Ruby / Ruby on Rails, love a bit of Elixir / Phoenix and learning Rust. I also poke through other people's code and make PRs for OpenSource Ruby projects that sometimes make it. Currently working for InPay...”

Rob Lacey
Senior Software Engineer, UK

Disable startup items in Debian / Ubuntu

Needed to get rid of PostegreSQL on start up. That’s freeing up 8Mb of memory….its better than nothing.

rails@cool-server-name-001:~$ sudo update-rc.d -f postgresql-8.3 remove
 Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.3 ...
   /etc/rc0.d/K21postgresql-8.3
   /etc/rc1.d/K21postgresql-8.3
   /etc/rc3.d/S19postgresql-8.3
   /etc/rc4.d/S19postgresql-8.3
   /etc/rc5.d/S19postgresql-8.3
   /etc/rc6.d/K21postgresql-8.3
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