VMware on ubuntu: remove from init.d

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I wanted to have vmware installed on my computer, but didn't want the virtual machines to be running EVERY time my system boots up, but vmware installs itself so that it links start/stop scripts here:

/etc/rc0.d/K08vmware
/etc/rc2.d/S90vmware
/etc/rc2.d/K08vmware
/etc/rc3.d/S90vmware
/etc/rc3.d/K08vmware
/etc/rc5.d/S90vmware
/etc/rc5.d/K08vmware
/etc/rc6.d/K08vmware

Use "update-rc.d" for removing the links to the "/etc/init.d/vmware" startup script, by executing:

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update-rc.d -f vmware remove

Without the "-f" option, update-rc.d will complain that /etc/init.d/vmware still exists. Since I wanted to keep the startup script for manual startup, I used this "force" option.

The output will look like this:

Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/vmware ...
/etc/rc0.d/K08vmware
/etc/rc2.d/S90vmware
/etc/rc2.d/K08vmware
/etc/rc3.d/S90vmware
/etc/rc3.d/K08vmware
/etc/rc5.d/S90vmware
/etc/rc5.d/K08vmware
/etc/rc6.d/K08vmware

Note: For some strange reason, the vmware startup script does not show up when using "bum" (boot up manager) - will check that...