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<p class="MsoNormal">Good Afternoon list,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am having a problem with my systemd service file and I think I now understand the problem. I’ll describe below, but I’m hoping there is a way around it which someone may be able to illuminate me on.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am developing an rpm package with software which gets installed under /opt/my/bin/service. Imagine I have a corresponding directory in /opt/my/etc/systemd/system/my-service.service incorporated into the package. As part of the package
installation the post install script runs systemctl enable /opt/my/etc/systemd/system/my-service.service<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My service file has an After=basic.target, Before=network.target, WantedBy=Default.target, and ExecStart=/opt/my/bin/service.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All of the symlinks appear to be ok. After installation when the user runs systemctl start my-service.service everything works as expected.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, when rebooting everything is not so nice. In the journal one can observe the error “Cannot add dependency job for unit my-service.service, ignoring: Unit not found.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">/opt happens to be on a separate partition than / and /usr. I’m assuming during systemd startup that systemd is parsing everything before /opt is moutned and coming across a broken symlink /etc/systemd/system/my-service.service.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Is there any other solution than removing the symlink and installing my-service.service unit file in /etc/systemd/system directly?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have a requirement to keep our software neatly confined in /opt/my.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kind Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Kevin<o:p></o:p></p>
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