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I have dnsmasq installed to make my Pi 3 with Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie) into an AP (accesspoint). I want to be able to switch between AP mode and client mode.

This all works fine, but when I boot my pi3 dsnmasq will startup, which I do not want (only for the AP mode).

I removed all links to /etc/init.d/dnsmasq from /etc/rc*.d but it still starts. I set ENEABLED=0 in /etc/default/dnsmasq but it still starts.

I run systemctl disable dnsmasq.service but it still starts.

Only when I add exit 0 to the start of the /etc/init.d/dnsmasq it will not start, but than I can not start it myself.

So a work arround is changing the script removing the exit 0 start it and than adding the exit 0 to the script again. But this seems not the most elegant way of doing this.

is there a way to find out what is starting dnsmasq?

edit:

i have removed the dnsmasq.service from the service dir:

rm /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dnsmasq.service

but still dnsmasq is started:

 ps aux | grep dnsmasq
 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq -x /var/run/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.pid -u dnsmasq -r /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf -7 /etc/dnsmasq.d,.dpkg-dist,.dpkg-old,.dpkg-new --local-service --trust-anchor=.,19036,8,2,49AAC11D7B6F6446702E54A1607371607A1A41855200FD2CE1CDDE32F24E8FB5

to answer the question in the comment:

 systemctl list-units | grep dns
 dnsmasq.service loaded active running   dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server

after disable with systemctl:

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# systemctl disable dnsmasq
Synchronizing state for dnsmasq.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d dnsmasq defaults
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script    `dnsmasq'      overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `dnsmasq' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).
insserv: script dnsmasq_run: service dnsmasq already provided!
insserv: script dnsmasq_exit: service dnsmasq already provided!
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d dnsmasq disable
insserv: warning: current start runlevel(s) (empty) of script `dnsmasq' overrides LSB defaults (2 3 4 5).
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 2 3 4 5 6) of script `dnsmasq' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6).
insserv: script dnsmasq_run: service dnsmasq already provided!
insserv: script dnsmasq_exit: service dnsmasq already provided!

there has been a question alike this one (Disabling DHCP Server)

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  • "is there a way to find out what is starting dsnmasq?" -> You should investigate systemd-analyze critical-chain.
    – goldilocks
    Aug 18, 2016 at 13:07
  • i updated my question and will try systemd-analyze
    – tibi
    Aug 18, 2016 at 13:17
  • You could also check sudo systemctl list-units | grep dns to see if it is being run by systemd, in which case removing the links to init.d was not effective. I'm not sure why it would work out that way, but I believe it could.
    – goldilocks
    Aug 18, 2016 at 13:25
  • i added the os version (sorry for that).
    – tibi
    Aug 18, 2016 at 15:06
  • i tried to remove the service like this: systemctl disable dnsmasq.service but it did not work
    – tibi
    Aug 18, 2016 at 15:07

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it seems to work now. not 100% what did the trick but i think there were 2 dnsmasq.service files. i removed one and again did the systemctl disable dnsmasq and now it does not start at startup.

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    – Ingo
    Dec 16, 2019 at 16:12

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