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author | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2016-08-17 22:15:54 -0400 |
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committer | Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> | 2016-08-19 09:55:56 -0400 |
commit | f16517151310b88591f3501a59e23ae2a79e7f02 (patch) | |
tree | 91633cc4bbbae903e4fb83756a8d3a1b912451fb /man/systemctl.xml | |
parent | de78fa9ba0be55b01066ca5a716c6673d76b817b (diff) |
shared/install: properly report masked units listed in Also=
A masked unit is listed in Also=:
$ systemctl cat test1 test2
→# /etc/systemd/system/test1.service
[Unit]
Description=test service 1
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/true
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Also=test2.service
Alias=alias1.service
→# /dev/null
$ systemctl --root=/ enable test1
(before)
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/alias1.service → /etc/systemd/system/test1.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/test1.service → /etc/systemd/system/test1.service.
The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy, RequiredBy, Also, Alias
settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance for template units).
This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
.wants/ or .requires/ directory.
2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
a requirement dependency on it.
3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).
4) In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some
instance name specified.
(after)
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/alias1.service → /etc/systemd/system/test1.service.
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/test1.service → /etc/systemd/system/test1.service.
Unit /etc/systemd/system/test2.service is masked, ignoring.
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