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When i try to disable the autostart of some service it continues to start on boot. I tried 'systemctl disable service.name'. I tried disabling by unchecking in MCC as well but they continue to autostart at boot. Running Mageia 5 (updated).

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● hostapd.service - Hostapd IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/hostapd.service; disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2015-08-20 19:48:16 EEST; 1min 20s ago
  Process: 2645 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf -P /run/hostapd.pid -B (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 2709 (hostapd)
   CGroup: /system.slice/hostapd.service
           └─2709 /usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf -P /run/hostapd...



Can you please post the exact command you used and the output you got?
systemctl disable service.name will not work, it's

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systemctl disable name.service

- you can also omit the .service at the end and systemd will guess automatically the type.

systemctl disable hostapd.service

It seems to be disabled but it continues to start at boot.

Can you please post the output you got?

Apart from that, you could try with

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systemctl mask hostapd.service

I posted the output in my first post. When masked the service does not start on boot. I have other services like NetworkManager which are disabled in MCC but are still trying to start at boot.

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[ INFO ] Network Manager is not active.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Network Manager Wait Online.


NetApplet also dissapeared from my taskbar after loading the hostapd.service and it does not show again.

telliev wrote:I posted the output in my first post.

You posted the output of systemctl status hostapd.

telliev wrote:I have other services like NetworkManager which are disabled in MCC but are still trying to start at boot.

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[ INFO ] Network Manager is not active.
[DEPEND] Dependency failed for Network Manager Wait Online.


It says that networkmanager is inactive. NetworkManager-wait-online.service is a separate service.

telliev wrote:NetApplet also dissapeared from my taskbar after loading the hostapd.service and it does not show again.

Sounds like a separate issue. Now that you masked hostapd, is net_applet shown in the taskbar? In case not, please show the output as root of

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journalctl -ab | grep -i net_applet

Hello! When i disable hostapd.service there is no output. It seems to accept the disable signal.
NetworkManager-wait-online.service is also a disabled service in MCC but it shows on boot.

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[root@localhost 06:58:29 telliev]# systemctl status NetworkManager-wait-online.service
● NetworkManager-wait-online.service - Network Manager Wait Online
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager-wait-online.service; disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Aug 20 23:36:17 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Netwo...
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.


net_applet after some reboot works, but sometimes it's icon dissapear and does not show. Reboot is needed.

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[root@localhost 07:02:05 telliev]# journalctl -ab | grep -i net_applet
Aug 20 23:37:01 localhost.localdomain net_applet[1892]: ### Program is starting ###


If you don't want to see the message about NetworkManager-wait-online.service then you should also mask it.
For net_applet intermittently disappearing - that belongs in a separate thread.