[systemd-devel] Query regarding "EnvironmentFile"

[Reindl Harald]

Am 23.12.2015 um 01:24 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Thu, 10.12.15 16:20, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:
>>
>> Am 10.12.2015 um 15:46 schrieb Jóhann B. Guðmundsson:
>>> If you are unaware of any other use case for it
>>
>> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/httpd
>> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -D FOREGROUND
>>
>> [root at testserver:~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/httpd
>> OPTIONS="-D testserver"
>>
>> Apache:
>> <IfDefine testserver>
>> Include "conf/local/testserver.conf"
>> </IfDefine>
>>
>> and now you can use the same systemd-unit on a dozens of machines and
>> include specific config snippets WITOUT touch the systemd-unit or *anything*
>> else in the apache configuration
>
> Well, there's not much difference in touching weird env var files or
> the unit files themselves. I fail to see what the benefit of not
> touching the unit files could be...
>
> Also, what you do above sounds like a job for unit file templates...

since the functionality already exists and i am not a distribution "i am 
comfortable with it for years" should be enough - don't fix things which 
ain't broken

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