Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com> writes: > > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 07:29 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > > This is broken IMO ... there is nothing inherently wrong with on > > > demand loading ... actually it is the opposite. (i.e should be done > > > whenever possible). > > > > > On demand loading is great. But the system administrator needs to have > > control to be able to turn things on and off. So we need Lennart to give us > > information on how to do that. > > I believe this has already been explained several times: if you > *disable* a service, rather than *stopping* it, socket activation won't > happen until you re-enable it. > It's only if you just stop a service that > socket activation will happily start it back up again. This is the > 'three levels of 'off'' stuff, IIRC. I would say this is not a good idea with how "stop" works. I usually stop a service for a reason. Perhaps I follow it up with a reconfiguration or do other related work. I would not want it be started during that time by systemd's "magic". JB -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel