[systemd-devel] "systemctl enable" does not report all actions

Ross Lagerwall rosslagerwall at gmail.com
Wed Apr 24 03:11:02 PDT 2013


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:18:15AM +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> # systemctl disable foo.service bar.service
> # systemctl enable foo.service
> 
> ... reboot ...
> 
> # cp /lib/systemd/system/foo.service /etc/systemd/system/foo.service
> # vi /etc/systemd/system/foo.service
> 
> .. admin forgets, that the old foo.service is already enabled.
> 
> # systemctl enable foo.service bar.service
> Failed to issue method call: File exists
> 

I had a similar issue with reenable (and a similarly obscure error
message):
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-April/010607.html

-- 
Ross Lagerwall


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