On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
On 07/29/13 11:09, David Beveridge wrote:
> The mask keyword is not used in any sysctl commands from what I can see.
I should have looked more before typing. Oops.
Are you confusing sysctl and systemctl?
yes
From the systemctl man page....
mask NAME...
Mask one or more unit files, as specified on the command line. This
will link these units to /dev/null, making it impossible to start
them. This is a stronger version of disable, since it prohibits all
kinds of activation of the unit, including manual activation. Use
this option with care.
So the documentation likes the word prohibit as well.
The problem is that there is also an unmask command and unprohibit is
not a word.
I suppose you could use allow and deny keywords, but I'm not really
convinced that it would improve the situation at all.
It all comes back to the same thing, regardless of what keywords are
used you should read the manual to be sure what they do.
I still vote to leave it as it is.