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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2010-10-08 18:21:52 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2010-10-08 18:21:52 +0200
commit6daf4f9001d87da9e92c04ff606b454c209f0951 (patch)
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unit: rename 'banned' load state to 'masked'
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string before the @, i.e. "getty" in the example
above, where "tty3" is the instance name.</para>
+ <para>If a unit file is empty (i.e. has the file size
+ 0) or is symlinked to <filename>/dev/null</filename>
+ its configuration will not be loaded and it appears
+ with a load state of <literal>masked</literal>, and
+ cannot be activated. Use this as an effective way to
+ fully disable a unit, making it impossible to start it
+ even manually.</para>
+
<para>The unit file format is covered by the
<ulink
url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/InterfaceStabilityPromise">Interface