Am Thu, 14 Dec 2017 08:54:59 +0100 schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> Some historical correctnesses about Canek: >> >> - He has been here for years - He has contributed here for years - He >> supports systemd and has offered more help and explanation about >> systemd to it's users on this list than any other single person, bar >> none - He has never, not once, slagged off SysV Init, OpenRC or any >> other init system, ot the creators or the users - He has never posted >> rude or inflamatory comments about anyone arguing against him - He has >> never resorted to ad-hominem and never posted any knee jerk opinions >> about any other poster wrt their stance on init systems > > +1 I may not agree with Canek on all things: > - I do dislike systemd, especially on Centos where disabling services > doesn't always work past a reboot
Well, I think you're falling the pitfall expecting "disable" makes a unit unstartable. That is not the case. Disabling a unit only removes it from the list of units starting on your own intent. It can still be pulled it as a (required) dependency. If you really want it never being started, you need to mask the unit. It's then no longer visible to the dependency resolver as if it were not installed at all. The verbs disable and enable are arguably a bit misleading, while the verbs mask and unmask are not really obvious. But if you think of it, it actually makes sense. If you "rc-update del" a service, you wouldn't prevent it from being started neither, just because OpenRC is still able to pull it in as a dependency. So it's actually not an argument for why you'd dislike systemd. ;-) -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
