bad practice: services that are automatically re-enabled

[Matthew Miller]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 10:20:24PM -0400, John Thacker wrote:
> > Did you run:
> >  chkconfig --del <service> (wrong)
> > or
> >  chkconfig --level <levels> <service> (right)
> > ?
> chkconfig <service> off
> will also work.  It *is* somewhat confusing, though.  It's a mistake I
> made when first using chkconfig; then I saw the problem mentioned, and
> bothered to actually read the man page more closely. ;)

I think it's 'cause "--del" and other options are called out in bold as
bullet points in the man page but on/off is just mentioned in the text.

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