Matthias Urlichs <matth...@urlichs.de> writes: > Hi, > > Philip Hands: >> Is there any way this isn't going to be an enormous surprise to people >> that are used to the way that Debian usually treats /etc? >> > Well, instead of "edit /etc/default/FOO and search for the flag to disable > the daemon" or the programmatic equivalent of "add a bunch of symlinks > named K* to /etc/rc*" you run "systemd mask SERVICE", which translates to > "add one symlink to /dev/null at /etc/systemd/system/SERVICE".
Fair enough -- "mask" is not the first thing I though of as it happens :-) I'll see if there's some way of making the manual a bit more helpful, by for instance mentioning in the "disable" description that the reader might actually be looking for "mask" instead. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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