How do you remove entries from System Services?

[Snowhog]

/var/log/boot.log

Sat Nov 17 09:09:26 2007: * Starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv ^[[80G FATAL: Module vboxdrv not found.
Sat Nov 17 09:09:26 2007:
Sat Nov 17 09:09:26 2007: ^[[31m*^[[39;49m Modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why.
Sat Nov 17 09:09:26 2007: Starting VirtualBox host networking...done.

System Settings | System Services
vbesave - Start at Boot Yes not running
vboxdrv - Start at Boot Yes not running
vboxnet - Start at Boot Yes not running

I changed the above to reflect "Start at Boot" No and I don't get the error reflected above anymore. But, how do you remove these entries so they aren't listed in System Services? VirtualBox had been installed, then removed (installed VMware Player instead).

[Rog131]

Re: How do you remove entries from System Services?

Maybe:

sudo dpkg -P --force-all virtualbox-ose

man dpkg

-P or --purge removes everything, including configuration files.

--force-all: Turns on (or off) all force options.

hmm - maybe first:

--no-act | --dry-run | --simulate
Do everything which is supposed to be done, but don't write any changes. This is used to see what would happen with the specified action, without actually modifying anything.

And/or

sudo update-rc.d -f virtualbox-ose remove

man update-rc.d

update-rc.d - install and remove System-V style init script links

NAME
update-rc.d - install and remove System-V style init script links

SYNOPSIS
update-rc.d [-n] [-f] name remove


-f Force removal of symlinks even if /etc/init.d/name still exists.
-n Don’t do anything, just show what we would do.

You could also check /etc/init.d/. Is there virtualbox-ose or/and vbox scripts ?

From Unix Manual Page for init.d
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/mansec?4+init.d

/etc/init.d is a directory containing initialization and
termination scripts for changing init states. These scripts
are linked when appropriate to files in the rc?.d direc-
tories, where `?' is a single character corresponding to the
init state. See init(1M) for definitions of the states.

[Snowhog]

Re: How do you remove entries from System Services?

You could also check /etc/init.d/. Is there virtualbox-ose or/and vbox scripts ?

Thanks Rog! That was where they were.