[systemd-devel] is-enabled and generated units

[Michael Biebl]

2015-06-14 11:17 GMT+02:00 Igor Bukanov <igor at mir2.org>:
> Hello,
>
> I noticed that running `systemctl is-enabled foo.service` against a
> service written by a generator fails with a puzzling error message:
>
> Failed to get unit file state for foo.service: No such file or directory
>
> when I expected that the command succeeds and prints enabled-runtime
> as the unit was enabled through a target file
> /run/systemd/generator/multi-user.target.d/foo.conf containing:
>
> [Unit]
> Wants=foo.service

Just curious: why don't you use

 /run/systemd/generator/multi-user.target.wants/foo.service → symlink
to the generated file foo.service?

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