SYSTEMD-RFKILL.SERVICE(8)

💖 SYSTEMD-RFKILL.SERVICE 💖

okay bestie, so the manual name is SYSTEMD-RFKILL.SERVICE(8) and the whole family here is systemd-rfkill.service, systemd-rfkill.socket and systemd-rfkill — and what do they do? they load and save the RF kill switch state at boot and on change. periodt. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

systemd-rfkill.service, systemd-rfkill.socket, systemd-rfkill — literally the trio that loads and saves your RF kill switch state at boot and every time it changes 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

systemd-rfkill.service

systemd-rfkill.socket

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-rfkill

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so systemd-rfkill.service is that girl: she restores the RF kill switch state super early at boot, and then she saves it every single time it changes. no cap. 💖

and where does she keep all that? on disk, the RF kill switch state lives in /var/lib/systemd/rfkill/. iconic storage behaviour honestly. 🗂️✨

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🔥 KERNEL COMMAND LINE 🔥

ok so systemd-rfkill understands the following kernel command line parameter. and if you wanna know more about that whole scene, go check kernel-command-line(7). iykyk 👑

• systemd.restore_state= — takes a boolean argument, and it defaults to "1". but if you set it to "0", it does not restore the rfkill settings on boot. HOWEVER — and this is the plot twist — the settings will still be stored on shutdown. she's not letting go, bestie 😭💀

added in version 227, so it's been doing this for a minute 🌈

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• systemd(1)

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and that's the whole page, babe ✨ this lil writeup came from systemd 262.1, dated like the classic it is — mwah, stay slay, go restore some state 💅👑🌸