a little late here because i've been busy but i think an average/advanced page would be good. i might add i think that the whole idea of blacklisting, period, shouldn't be a "beginner" task, let alone the general topic of unloading services as my intuition suggested and you all agreed.
wxl On 01/31/2012 12:52 AM, amjjawad HOOHAA wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Two things I'd like to share with you in brief: > > 1- Let's keep the current FAQs area as simple as possible because that > area will be very much helpful for new comers. After all, they need > someone to show them where our FAQs is :) > > 2- I suggest to create a new page for Average and Advanced Users so we > can achieve Point 1 above easily and also help those who want more > advanced stuff :) > > By the way, I have sent earlier a suggestion about working on our Wiki > Pages and Phill replied me. I agree the work needs more time but I > suggest to do this step by step. For example, let's re-arrange or > organize the current FAQs. If that step is done, we have completed at > least the first step :) > > So, wxl, what do you think? others? > > Thanks! > > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM, ∅ <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Guides#Disable_Bluetooth > suggests blacklisting to unload Bluetooth. An interesting thing I > found > is that if you then try to sudo modprobe bluetooth you get a notice > letting you know that this blacklisting file will be deprecated in the > future. > > Another possible way of doing this is by modifying the S-scripts > in run > levels 2-5. This can be easily done with the ncurses-based package > sysv-rc-conf but can also be done (with a little more skill/knowledge) > with update-rc.d. I guess you could also technically mess with the > files > themselves but that's a pain IMHO. > > To be sure they accomplished the same thing, I checked to see that > lsmod > | grep bluetooth and ps aux | grep bluetooth both produced results, > which they did. Then I did the blacklisting and checked again. Neither > produced results. Then I removed the blacklisting, made sure that we > were back to the original behavior, and altered the S-scripts so that > the Bluetooth daemon wasn't loaded. Again, I checked the results > of the > aforementioned commands and, again, nothing. > > Anyways, it sounds like it may make sense to replace this section > with a > section generally on unloading services, but use Bluetooth as an > example. My question is what you guys thing about giving the average > user the instruction to alter their run levels. This could mean > totally > messing up their system if they don't do it right. Of course, > sysv-rc-conf is particularly easy, but still…I thought I'd ask before > forging forward. > > wxl > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs > <https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-wiki-docs> > Post to : [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs > <https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-wiki-docs> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > > -- > Best Regards, > > *amjjawad* > Lubuntu One Stop Thread <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755> > My Wiki Page <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>| My Launchpad > <https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad>| My Ubuntu Forum Profile > <http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822> >
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