[systemd-devel] systemd-timesyncd with read-only root filesystem

[Martin Pitt]

Hello André,

André Hartmann [2016-12-01 11:20 +0100]:
> In other words: once this symlink is valid, you cannot invalidate it by
> make it a dangling symlink, you have to remove it. Can somebody confirm this
> observation?

Not a dangling one, but you should be able to make a symlink in /etc
pointing to /dev/null. This is called "masking" and what "systemctl
mask" does, and is sort of a stronger version of "disable" (in the
sense that it will also not be started any more through Requires= and
friends).

Martin
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