On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 09:50, Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 09:34:42AM +1000, David wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 09:24, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > systemctl disable mlocate.service before you fiddle with its > > > configuration, then enable it afterwards. > > > > Hi, I think you need "stop" and "start" there, not "disable" and > > and "enable". > > > > Or maybe "systemctl daemon-reload" although I'm not sure > > about that because I don't know much about systemd. > > > > But a quick test here shows that a "disable" command on a > > running service does not stop it. > > It's not a running service. It's a service that's started by a timer. > The other David's proposal was to disable it, in the hope that this > would prevent the timer from being able to start it.
Ah, you're right, I wasn't paying sufficient attention and missed that, sorry for adding noise to the thread.
