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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm hoping you will be at the meeting on Wednesday. Please do bring it up.
Unless there is another volunteer, I'm chairing it.

Regards,

Phill.

On 1 February 2012 00:16, Chris <cyber.druif@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I know it's late where I am, but anyhow. I think it's a better idea to
> split the FAQ into Beginner, Intermediate and Experienced then Guides and
> Workarounds.
> As I'm still working on getting a proper job and it not being a one-man
> team I *would* like some help in determining the level of the FAQ's.
>
> This can be done by adding ##comments to the different entries.
>
> With metta, Chris
> On Jan 31, 2012 10:38 PM, "Phill Whiteside" <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Feel free to update the FAQ to use the .conf file!
>>
>> The other point raised is that of FAQ's for different expertise. I've
>> given my views in a previous email, but things for run-level should really
>> be in the intermediate / advanced section of tweaks to do with lubuntu :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>> On 31 January 2012 17:40, Bhaskar Kandiyal <bkandiyal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Monday 30 January 2012 09:53 AM, ∅ wrote:
>>> >
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Guides#Disable_Bluetooth
>>> >
>>> >
>>> suggests blacklisting to unload Bluetooth. An interesting thing I found
>>> > is that if you then try to sudo modprobe bluetooth you get a
>>> > notice letting you know that this blacklisting file will be
>>> > deprecated in the future.
>>>
>>> That notice is for /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, the message states that
>>> every file in this directory should be a .conf file, so we can safely
>>> replace /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
>>> (both files exist as of now) to get the same results. I might make the
>>> change to the FAQ.
>>>
>>> > Another possible way of doing this is by modifying the S-scripts in
>>> > run levels 2-5. This can be easily done with the ncurses-based
>>> > package sysv-rc-conf but can also be done (with a little more
>>> > skill/knowledge) with update-rc.d. I guess you could also
>>> > technically mess with the files themselves but that's a pain IMHO.
>>> >
>>> > To be sure they accomplished the same thing, I checked to see that
>>> > lsmod | grep bluetooth and ps aux | grep bluetooth both produced
>>> > results, which they did. Then I did the blacklisting and checked
>>> > again. Neither produced results. Then I removed the blacklisting,
>>> > made sure that we were back to the original behavior, and altered
>>> > the S-scripts so that the Bluetooth daemon wasn't loaded. Again, I
>>> > checked the results of the aforementioned commands and, again,
>>> > nothing.
>>> >
>>> > Anyways, it sounds like it may make sense to replace this section
>>> > with a section generally on unloading services, but use Bluetooth
>>> > as an example. My question is what you guys thing about giving the
>>> > average user the instruction to alter their run levels. This could
>>> > mean totally messing up their system if they don't do it right. Of
>>> > course, sysv-rc-conf is particularly easy, but still…I thought I'd
>>> > ask before forging forward.
>>> >
>>> > wxl
>>> >
>>>
>>> I don't think letting a user mess with the runlevels and their
>>> services is a good idea :)
>>> As you said, it can mess up the system, so we should take the easy way
>>> out and tell the user the method that's less error prone or the one
>>> that doesn't need advanced know-how.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bhaskar Kandiyal
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