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a little late here because i've been busy but i think an
average/advanced page would be good. i might add i think that the whole
idea of blacklisting, period, shouldn't be a "beginner" task, let alone
the general topic of unloading services as my intuition suggested and
you all agreed.

wxl

On 01/31/2012 12:52 AM, amjjawad HOOHAA wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Two things I'd like to share with you in brief:
>
> 1- Let's keep the current FAQs area as simple as possible because that
> area will be very much helpful for new comers. After all, they need
> someone to show them where our FAQs is :)
>
> 2- I suggest to create a new page for Average and Advanced Users so we
> can achieve Point 1 above easily and also help those who want more
> advanced stuff :)
>
> By the way, I have sent earlier a suggestion about working on our Wiki
> Pages and Phill replied me. I agree the work needs more time but I
> suggest to do this step by step. For example, let's re-arrange or
> organize the current FAQs. If that step is done, we have completed at
> least the first step :)
>
> So, wxl, what do you think? others?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:23 AM, ∅ <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx>> 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.
>
>     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
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