# I want to prevent the wowza server from starting automatically when the Linux server restarts.

**URL:** https://community.wowza.com/t/i-want-to-prevent-the-wowza-server-from-starting-automatically-when-the-linux-server-restarts/53632
**Category:** Wowza Streaming Engine
**Created:** [July 10, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-want-to-prevent-the-wowza-server-from-starting-automatically-when-the-linux-server-restarts/53632 "2019-07-10T07:36:58Z")
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### Author: ![sunny\_park](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@sunny\_park](https://community.wowza.com/u/sunny_park)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 7:36am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-want-to-prevent-the-wowza-server-from-starting-automatically-when-the-linux-server-restarts/53632/1 "2019-07-10T07:36:58Z")

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I want to prevent the wowza server from starting automatically when the Linux server restarts.

When I install the wowza streaming engine server, it asks if wowza should be started automatically when the server is restarted. I chose yes then, but now I want to change the setting to no. I can not find any way. Which part should I change?

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### Author: ![Karel\_Boek](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.wowza.com/karel_boek/32/454_2.png) [@Karel\_Boek](https://community.wowza.com/u/Karel_Boek)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 7:46am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-want-to-prevent-the-wowza-server-from-starting-automatically-when-the-linux-server-restarts/53632/2 "2019-07-10T07:46:57Z")

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Hi @sunny park, it depends a bit on which Linux distro you’re using, but many newer distro version will allow you to enter the following commands on the console:

```auto
$ sudo systemctl disable WowzaStreamingEngine
$ sudo systemctl disable WowzaStreamingEngineManager

```

If that doesn’t work for you, then post your Linux distro and version here.

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### Author: ![sunny\_park](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@sunny\_park](https://community.wowza.com/u/sunny_park)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-want-to-prevent-the-wowza-server-from-starting-automatically-when-the-linux-server-restarts/53632/3 "2019-07-10T09:51:34Z")

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linux centOS 6.10 !!

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### Author: ![Andrew\_Ramberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@Andrew\_Ramberg](https://community.wowza.com/u/Andrew_Ramberg)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://community.wowza.com/t/i-want-to-prevent-the-wowza-server-from-starting-automatically-when-the-linux-server-restarts/53632/4 "2019-07-15T20:13:42Z")

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Hello,

If the systemctl is not supported by this version of centOS, you could rename the startup services within the current runlevel. For instance if you’re running in command line mode run level 3, the files could be renamed similar to this:

mv /etc/rc3.d/S80WowzaStreamingEngine /etc/rc3.d/K80WowzaStreamingEngine  
mv /etc/rc3.d/S80WowzaStreamingEngineManager /etc/rc3.d/K80WowzaStreamingEngineManager

After a restart, this should prevent these services from automatically restarting.

Best regards,  
Andrew