Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us writes:
On 07/08/2014 11:40 PM, lee wrote:
When something is disguised or hidden, it is not disabled. It is camouflaged or concealed. Camouflage, concealment, hiding, disguise and masking can all be used for*preventing* from being disabled.
No. When a service is disabled it can still be started after boot, but when it's masked, it can't be started at all.
That the service can still be started means that it is *not* disabled.
Do understand that I'm defending neither systemd nor the deveolper's choice of terminology. I'm merely correcting what looks like a misstatement of how it works.
The bug --- or call it misstatement if you like --- is with systemd in that things can still be started even when they are disabled.