Good idea! I've done the same for both update and distnoted. If anything bad
does happen, we can simply toggle them back on in single-user mode.
For what it's worth, I've found some information from Apple. It's basically just a brief, human-readable version of what the man page says.
From
Developer Connection: The Boot Process:
Quote:
update: Periodically flushes the file-system cache to help prevent data loss in the event of a crash.
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I've found practically nothing useful from
anywhere online about distnoted.