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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - masked rsyslog.service is started"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65946">65946</a>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>masked rsyslog.service is started
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>mbiebl@gmail.com
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>general
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>systemd
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        <pre>Version: 204

Even though I masked rsyslog.service, the service can still be started:


root@pluto:~# systemctl status rsyslog.service syslog.socket
rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mi 2013-06-19 21:53:10 CEST; 3s ago
 Main PID: 4416 (rsyslogd)
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rsyslog.service
           └─4416 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n

Jun 19 21:53:10 pluto systemd[1]: Starting System Logging Service...
Jun 19 21:53:10 pluto systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.

syslog.socket - Syslog Socket
         Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/syslog.socket; static)
         Active: active (running) since Mi 2013-06-19 21:53:10 CEST; 3s ago
           Docs: man:systemd.special(7)
                 <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog</a>
                 man:systemd.special(7)
                 <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/syslog</a>
         Listen: /run/systemd/journal/syslog (Datagram)

Jun 19 21:53:10 pluto systemd[1]: Stopping Syslog Socket.
Jun 19 21:53:10 pluto systemd[1]: Starting Syslog Socket.
Jun 19 21:53:10 pluto systemd[1]: Listening on Syslog Socket.
root@pluto:~# systemctl stop syslog.socket rsyslog.service
root@pluto:~# systemctl mask rsyslog.service 
ln -s '/dev/null' '/etc/systemd/system/rsyslog.service'
root@pluto:~# systemctl status rsyslog.service 
rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; masked)
   Active: inactive (dead) since Mi 2013-06-19 21:53:26 CEST; 11s ago
 Main PID: 4416 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rsyslog.service

Jun 19 21:53:10 pluto systemd[1]: Starting System Logging Service...
Jun 19 21:53:10 pluto systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.
Jun 19 21:53:26 pluto systemd[1]: Stopping System Logging Service...
Jun 19 21:53:26 pluto systemd[1]: Stopped System Logging Service.
root@pluto:~# systemctl start rsyslog.service 
root@pluto:~# systemctl status rsyslog.service 
rsyslog.service - System Logging Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsyslog.service; masked)
   Active: active (running) since Mi 2013-06-19 21:53:47 CEST; 1s ago
 Main PID: 4464 (rsyslogd)
   CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rsyslog.service
           └─4464 /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n

Jun 19 21:53:47 pluto systemd[1]: Starting System Logging Service...
Jun 19 21:53:47 pluto systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.</pre>
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