[systemd-devel] EnvironmentFile spec

[Nikos Platis]

The reason I was asking is that I was witnessing some problems with a
service, which I could attribute to problems with (the syntax of?) the
EnvironmentFile used.

Using at least systemd 201 on Arch Linux, the (seemingly valid) file
provided by the package author would not work (some variables defined in it
were not seen by the service file (not substituted in its command line)),
but changing the file in unexpected ways (moving all the commands after the
comments and/or stripping all the comments) resulted in the file being
parsed correctly (?).

The project is pacserve (http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pacserve/) and
the discussion can be found after this post:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1258422#p1258422



2013/4/14 Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>

> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Nikos Platis <nplatis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I would like to ask if the syntax specification for files used as
> > EnvironmentFile's is available somewhere. I have searched but could not
> find
> > anything.
> >
> > Unfortunately, if you search around the Internet, you can find many
> issues
> > with these files' syntax: it is like Bash, but not exactly, it is not
> > sourced, etc.
>
> It's supposed to be sourceable in bash; systemd 201 has some fixes to
> make it read and write the correct syntax.
>
> --
> Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
>
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