On 07/28/2013 08:03 AM, lee wrote:
However, when I look at online dictionaries, they say that "disabled" refers to people the abilities of which are somehow limited, so that word won't be applicable here at all. Services are not people, and it is a bad idea to use misleading terms like this.
In English, words often have more than one meaning, depending on context. In a computer context, the word means that something has been turned off and isn't available for use. When you use systemctl to disable a service, you're telling it not to start the service at boot, although other services can later start it. If you mask the service, it's completely unavailable until you reverse the process.
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