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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:zbyszek@in.waw.pl" title="Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>"> <span class="fn">Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek</span></a>
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title="RESOLVED INVALID - RFE: Make linking an instance service to a non-instance name possible"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73290">bug 73290</a>
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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED INVALID - RFE: Make linking an instance service to a non-instance name possible"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73290#c2">Comment # 2</a>
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bz_status_RESOLVED bz_closed"
title="RESOLVED INVALID - RFE: Make linking an instance service to a non-instance name possible"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73290">bug 73290</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:zbyszek@in.waw.pl" title="Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>"> <span class="fn">Zbigniew Jedrzejewski-Szmek</span></a>
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<pre>Nope, can't do that. We'd have a situation where the unit would both have an
instance and not have an instance. This would confuse things to no end.
That said, it is possible to link an instance name to a unit file outside of
the unit search path, and then the symlink target can be arbitrary, it doesn't
even have to be a valid unit name:
$ ln -sf '/etc/systemd/system/mydisplaymanager@.service'
'/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service' → not OK
$ cp /etc/systemd/system/mydisplaymanager@.service /etc/display_manager_service
$ ln -s /etc/display_manager_service
'/etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service' → OK</pre>
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