On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 09:11:01AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > So, what does this do? > > # cat /etc/prelink.conf.d/skype.conf > -b /usr/bin/skype It blacklists /usr/bin/skype from prelink. Not sure why, but it wouldn't affect make your system automatically start skype. Read 'man prelink.conf': -b --black-list=PATH This option allows blacklisting certain paths, libraries or binaries. Prelink will not touch them during prelinking. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>