[systemd-devel] User/Group overrides in a templated service triggered via timer

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mo, 31.08.20 17:18, Konstantin Ryabitsev (konstantin at linuxfoundation.org) wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 04:20:13PM -0400, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> > Did you also create an instance of the timer with the same instance
> > suffix? I've got a configuration working like that and it works fine.
> > If you don't want to do that, you can explicitly configure the name of
> > the service to be triggered (in the timer unit) instead of relying on
> > the timer/service names matching.
>
> Responding to myself, it seems that my problem was that I created the
> drop-in conf file as:
>
> /etc/systemd/system/grok-fsck at foo.d/10-runas.conf
>
> However, for the override to properly apply, it needed to be in:
>
> /etc/systemd/system/grok-fsck at foo.service.d/10-runas.conf
>
> I think without the "service" part in the directory name it was not
> properly found by the timer-triggered service run.

As mentioned this doesn#t have anything to do with timers or no
timers. The rule is just that the ".d/" must be append to the unit or
template name, i.e. after the ".service", as you noticed.

Lennart

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