Default services enabled

[JB]

Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com> writes:

> 
> On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 07:29 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> > > This is broken IMO ... there is nothing inherently wrong with on
> > > demand loading ... actually it is the opposite. (i.e should be done
> > > whenever possible).
> > >
> > On demand loading is great.  But the system administrator needs to have
> > control to be able to turn things on and off.  So we need Lennart to give us
> > information on how to do that.
> 
> I believe this has already been explained several times: if you
> *disable* a service, rather than *stopping* it, socket activation won't
> happen until you re-enable it.

> It's only if you just stop a service that
> socket activation will happily start it back up again. This is the
> 'three levels of 'off'' stuff, IIRC.

I would say this is not a good idea with how "stop" works.
I usually stop a service for a reason. Perhaps I follow it up with
a reconfiguration or do other related work. I would not want it be started
during that time by systemd's "magic".

JB