On Sun, 10 Dec 2023 14:17:36 -0600 David Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why is the service loaded, enabled and enabled then? Don't you need > to disable or mask it? Presumably it sits there, dead, all day > normally, and pops up at an appropriate time. As I understand things, start and stop are for immediate changes. enable and disable are for boot time. So the service is turned off until I either start it up again manually or reboot the computer. Then there's masking, which is a whole nother can of lawyers. And a slew of other states. See Table 1. is-enabled output, in man systemctl. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
