# How do I stop the Ignition gateway from starting automatically on Linux

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-do-i-stop-the-ignition-gateway-from-starting-automatically-on-linux/63874>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [September 8, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-do-i-stop-the-ignition-gateway-from-starting-automatically-on-linux/63874 "2022-09-08T12:29:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@jamesennis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jamesennis)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-do-i-stop-the-ignition-gateway-from-starting-automatically-on-linux/63874/1 "2022-09-08T12:29:07Z")

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Each time I restart/power on my machine, the gateway starts up and I don’t want tihs. Can’t find any documentation on disabling this. Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![jamesennis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@jamesennis](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jamesennis)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-do-i-stop-the-ignition-gateway-from-starting-automatically-on-linux/63874/2 "2022-09-08T12:39:36Z")

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Turns out I just couldn’t grep for the service because I was looking for ‘ignition’ rather than ‘Ignition’ 🤦‍♂️

For anyone who needs this:

`systemctl disable Ignition-Gateway`

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-do-i-stop-the-ignition-gateway-from-starting-automatically-on-linux/63874/3 "2022-09-08T12:45:42Z")

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It used to be just `ignition`, and can be configured to still be so. (:

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-do-i-stop-the-ignition-gateway-from-starting-automatically-on-linux/63874/4 "2022-09-08T13:24:30Z")

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The new service names annoy me, but I think we had to change them, or at least the Windows name, because Dell released some stupid security software that runs under the “Ignition” service name. I guess in response we just changed it across the board to “Ignition Gateway” or “Ignition-Gateway”.

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2023, 8:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-do-i-stop-the-ignition-gateway-from-starting-automatically-on-linux/63874/5 "2023-04-14T20:35:21Z")

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Could the manual be updated to reflect 'Ignition-Gateway' instead of 'ignition'

> #### Linux
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> You can control the service using the `ignition.sh` script. It can be called with the `start `and `stop` parameters to perform the relevant operations.
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> For example:
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> `/usr/local/bin/ignition/ignition.sh start`
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> Additionally, you can use native terminal commands to start or stop the service:
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> `service ignition start`
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> `service ignition stop`

[https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Gateway](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Gateway)

@Paul.Scott