<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) <<a href="mailto:Kevin.Boyce@ngc.com" target="_blank">Kevin.Boyce@ngc.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"> <div class="m_6158190618813345071WordSection1"> Good Afternoon list, 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. 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 My service file has an After=basic.target, Before=network.target, WantedBy=Default.target, and ExecStart=/opt/my/bin/service. All of the symlinks appear to be ok. After installation when the user runs systemctl start my-service.service everything works as expected. 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.” /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. Is there any other solution than removing the symlink and installing my-service.service unit file in /etc/systemd/system directly? We have a requirement to keep our software neatly confined in /opt/my.</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I guess you could pre-mount /opt from your initramfs, similar to the way an external /usr is mounted?</div></div><div> </div>-- <div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Mantas Mikulėnas</div></div> </div></div>