On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 09:34:42AM +1000, David wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 09:24, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > systemctl disable mlocate.service before you fiddle with its > > configuration, then enable it afterwards. > > Hi, I think you need "stop" and "start" there, not "disable" and > and "enable". > > Or maybe "systemctl daemon-reload" although I'm not sure > about that because I don't know much about systemd. > > But a quick test here shows that a "disable" command on a > running service does not stop it.
It's not a running service. It's a service that's started by a timer. The other David's proposal was to disable it, in the hope that this would prevent the timer from being able to start it. However, I don't think that would work. I think you'd need to mask it. That said, I have not tested either of those things.
