why do we use systemd?

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Tue Jul 8 20:54:23 UTC 2014


Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> writes:

> In systemd, a service that's disabled won't be directly started at
> boot, but another service can still start it either at boot or later.

That means that the service is *not* disabled.

> To keep a service from being started by systemd under any
> circumstances, you need to mask it.

And that means that it is disabled.

> I think that the idea is to make a distinction between services that
> are only started when something needs them and services that aren't
> started at all.

I don't mind this idea.  Yet when I disable something, I expect it to be
disabled.


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