Disabling a service is not stopping it
Tell disable from mask: what each one removes, why a disabled service still starts on demand, and why a unit you wrote yourself cannot be masked in place.
18 minutesTechnical content last reviewed on 17 Sept 2026
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What this lesson builds
- Running a service under systemd, from first start to automatic recovery
- Reading system state without over-reading it