bad practice: services that are automatically re-enabled

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jun 14 02:08:19 UTC 2005


Florin Andrei (florin at andrei.myip.org) said: 
> Something that absolutely needs to be fixed in future FC versions is
> services that "misteriously" re-enable themselves.
> 
> I'm sure it happened to everyone, so my story is surely not news.
> I install a fresh system, remove unnecessary packages, disable services
> that are not used at the moment but will be used after a while. All is
> good and the system is doing exactly what's supposed to do.
> But when I verify with chkconfig the list of enabled services a few
> weeks after that... surprise! Many services somehow managed to re-enable
> themselves!

Did you run:
 chkconfig --del <service> (wrong)
or
 chkconfig --level <levels> <service> (right)
?

What services in particular?

Bill




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