[systemd-devel] failure to disable a servie from restarting

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 21.01.13 16:29, Paul Wouters (pwouters at redhat.com) wrote:

> >>A solution for now could be to
> >>'sed s/Restart=yes/Restart=no/ ipsec.service > /run/systemd/systemd/ipsec.service'
> >>and 'systemctl daemon-reload'. The changes will go away at next
> >>reboot. (This will only work if you install files into
> >>/usr/lib/systemd/system and not /etc/systemd/system, since the latter
> >>once take precedence.)
> >
> >Yeah, this is kinda the same solution I proposed here:
> >
> >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=807897
> 
> But /run gets cleared on reboots. So I would still lose the setting.

well, then use /etc instead, which is persistent.

> I opted for always changing the /lib/systemd/system/ipsec.service
> file and running daemon-reload.

Thou shalt not touch /usr/lib. That's package manager territory. If you
want to edit files from there, copy them to the respective dir in /etc,
and edit them there. systemd will read units in /etc instead of those in
/usr if their names match.

Lennart

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