[systemd-devel] Masking local configuration system unit fails on file collision

[Vito Caputo]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 07:06:30AM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> 22.03.2019 6:50, Vito Caputo пишет:
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 08:49:03PM -0700, Vito Caputo wrote:
> >> I have a local system unit file at /etc/systemd/system/foo.conf, which I
> >> need to mask.
> > 
> > Correction: /etc/systemd/system/foo.service
> > 
> >>
> >> However, when I try to mask it systemctl complains:
> >>
> >>   # systemctl --version
> >>   systemd 241 (241.7-2-arch)
> >>   +PAM +AUDIT -SELINUX -IMA -APPARMOR +SMACK -SYSVINIT +UTMP +LIBCRYPTSETUP +GCRYPT +GNUTLS +ACL +XZ +LZ4 +SECCOMP +BLKID +ELFUTILS +KMOD +IDN2 -IDN +PCRE2 default-hierarchy=hybrid
> >>   # systemctl mask foo
> >>   Failed to mask unit: File /etc/systemd/system/foo.service already exists.
> >>   #
> >>
> >> If I need to move foo.service somewhere else, that kind of defeats the
> >> point of `systemctl mask` doesn't it?
> >>
> >> Shouldn't `systemctl mask` work equally well for locally-configured
> >> system units?
> >>
> 
> Where should symlink be created then?

A different directory from the one documented for storing local configuration?

Thanks,
Vito Caputo