[systemd-devel] Make systemctl is-enabled work for templated units

Michael Tremer michael.tremer at ipfire.org
Tue May 21 06:47:31 PDT 2013


On Tue, 2013-05-21 at 15:30 +0200, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 03:45:48PM +0200, Michael Tremer wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> > 
> > in this mail, you will find a patch which resolves the problem, that
> > 'systemctl is-enabled' does not work for templated units.
> Applied!

Thanks.

> > See also https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55318 for
> > reference.
> > 
> > Without this patch, systemctl is-enabled something at abc.service
> > returned "No such file or directory", because it was checked
> > if /usr/lib/systemd/system/something at abc.service, etc. existed,
> > which is obviously not the case.
> Actually, we can mask instance units, so "obviously" is not true.
> And we can also "concretize" instance units by adding a normal
> unit file for the instance. I tweaked your patch to just
> ignore ENOENT for instance units, but perform the checks.

Okay.

> 
> > If systemctl is-enabled is called for templated units, this
> > check should be omitted and it should be searched for symlinks
> > in the /etc paths right away.
> Actually links can appear not just in /etc, so this part of the
> description is misleading.

I just wrote /etc to keep the message short. It should have been more
precise, indeed.

Thanks anyway for looking into that and amending the patch.

-Michael



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