[systemd-devel] "No such file or directory" when enabling a service

[Dave Reisner]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 08:14:03PM +0000, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> I'm running systemd 204 under Fedora 19 (beta).  I have
> /etc/systemd/system/postfix-update-hook.service installed as a symlink
> to /etc/postfix/support/postfix-update-hook.service.
> 
> I can start it:
> 
>     # systemctl start postfix-update-hook
> 
> And check the status:
> 
>     # systemctl status postfix-update-hook
>     postfix-update-hook.service
>        Loaded: loaded (/etc/postfix/support/postfix-update-hook.service; linked)
>        Active: active (running) since Thu 2013-06-27 19:59:28 UTC; 25s ago
>      Main PID: 19276 (postfix-update-)
>        CGroup: name=systemd:/system/postfix-update-hook.service
>                └─19276 /bin/sh /etc/postfix/support/postfix-update-hook
> 
> But I can't enable it:
> 
>     # systemctl enable postfix-update-hook
>     Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory
> 
> If I replace the symlink in /etc/systemd/system with an actual file,
> then it works just fine:
> 
>     # cd /etc/systemd/system
>     # mv postfix-update-hook.service postfix-update-hook.service.symlink
>     # cp postfix-update-hook.service.symlink postfix-update-hook.service
>     # systemctl enable postfix-update-hook
>     ln -s '/etc/systemd/system/postfix-update-hook.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postfix-update-hook.service'
> 
> Is this expected behavior?

I suspect it is. 'systemctl link' does what you want if you're
interested in including unit files from outside the default unit search
path.

> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at oddbit.com>
> 
> 
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