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disable

This command disables one or more services.

Interface

disable [ -h ] [ -S ] [ -P ] service...

This command expects to find an already enabled service. The targeted service(s) can also be stopped on the fly when disabling it with the -S option. Generally speaking this command is the strict opposite of the enable command. A service already disabled, or never enabled, is left as it is; a running service keeps running unless -S is passed. A name with a frontend that was never parsed is refused with 100.

The services that depend on the service are disabled too, each before its dependency, and a logger is disabled with its service.

Disabling a provider leaves the name it provides to it: it still answers to it. Disabling a provided name disables its provider.

The 66 -t command option has no effect. 66 will detect automatically the associated tree of the service along its required-by dependencies.

In case of module service type, all services within the module are disabled. A service inside a module cannot be disabled alone: name the module instead.

Multiple services can be disabled by separating their names with a space.

This command handles interdependencies.

Options

  • -h, --help: prints this help.

  • -S, --stop: stops the service on the fly directly after disabling it, and removes it from the scandir as free does. If the state of the service is already down, this option will have no effect. This also applies to the required-by dependencies of the service. When the scandir is not running, the command exits with 100 and the service stays disabled.

  • -P: disable the named services only, not the services that depend on them nor their logger. With -S, the named services only are freed.

Usage examples

Disable the service

66 disable foo

Disable an instanced service

66 disable foo@foobar

Disable and stop the service, also increase the default verbosity:

66 -v3 disable -S foo

Switch the provider of the name network from the enabled connmand to networkmanager, the services that depend on network staying enabled. The full sequence, with the stop of the service left and the hand over between a service and a provider of its name, is in Provide:

66 disable -P connmand
66 enable networkmanager