'#start_smartd=yes' in /etc/default/smartmontools is ignored

Nick Rose <[email protected]> Mon, 5 Dec 2016 16:59:01 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.utilities.smartmontools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,
I use smartctl to manually check external hard drives occasionally. I don't need or want the smartd service to be running at all.
In the file /etc/default/smartmontools it says to start smartd automatically, uncomment the line 'start_smartd=yes'. It is already commented out, which is what I want, so it shouldn't start automatically but it still does.
I'm not sure whether this is a bug, or a quirk of the operating system I'm using (Xubuntu 15.10). I do know that smartd didn't start automatically in Xubuntu 14.04.
Is there a proper way to prevent smartd from starting automatically?
Thank you for your help.

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