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

[Michael Chapman]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2016, Michael Chapman wrote:
[...]
>>  Your'e right, I had a typo. But after checking again, I discovered the
>>  following:
>>
>>  cat /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd
>>
>>  (empty)
>>
>>  But systemctl status systemd-timesyncd says active (running)
>>
>>  The link structure is as follows:
>>
>>  /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/systemd-timesyncd ->
>>  /mnt/writeable/systemd-timesyncd ->
>>  /dev/null
>
> You will need to use the .service extension on at least the first of those 
> links. systemd will only consider links in that directory that have valid 
> unit names. (I'm pretty sure the intermediate link's name doesn't matter, but 
> I wouldn't want to rely on that -- best just to use valid full unit names 
> everywhere.)

Oh, something else I thought of... I'm pretty sure it doesn't make sense 
having a symlink to /dev/null inside a .wants directory. Really, only the 
name of those links are considered. The links aren't actually 
dereferenced.

- Michael