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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 14:37:00 +0000
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Subject: Re: Disable stock networking by editing a file
From: "Sertonix" <sertonix@posteo.net>
To: "Liam Proven" <lproven@gmail.com>, <~alpine/users@lists.alpinelinux.org>
References: <CAMTenCF-8ycEsqXCAPewB3VB6bFf13tHru=EZafr0BFb7bV7VQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> My first post _about_ Alpine _from_ Alpine.
>
> (Not from the affected machine, obviously.)
>
> I messed up a reinstall on one of my testbed boxes. It freezes, hard,
> on the login screen.
>
> I think it may be the situation described here:
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=3D285972
>
> I may well have installed Network Manager _before_ disabling the
> standard DHCP client.
>
> The machine has 5 OSes: XP64, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Alpine and
> Crunchbang++. The boot manager is Grub provided by Crunchbang.
>
> I can't easily boot into Alpine but I can simply mount the filesystem
> and edit files.
>
> So, I can't, for instance, do:
>
> $ doas systemctl disable dhcpcd
>
> How can I achieve the same result by editing a file from a different dist=
ro?

All the enabled services are specified inside of /etc/runlevels/.

I don't know what issue you are having but disabling a service can be done
like this:

$ doas unlink etc/runlevels/default/networkmanager

And enabling like this:

$ doas ln -s /etc/init.d/networkmanager etc/runlevels/default/

('default' is the runlevel. Some services have different runlevels but I
don't think the network related services.)