Re: Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:
> ... albeit poorly. If one wants to run daemontools under systemd, svscanboot is
> not the way; svscanboot is a thing of the past
> http://jdebp.eu./FGA/inittab-is-history.html#svscanboot , and was a source of
> problems long before systemd was invented.
Cool. I wish my Google searching had stumbled upon that, when I was
trying to figure out how to do all that stuff.
> The world wants you to clean your screen
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/233855/5132 , and this is merely one of the ways
> that it makes you do so.
Some day there will be actual end-user-friendly systemd documentation
somewhere, consolidating all of these pieces of wisdom together. I hope.
My own contributions toward that effort have been riddled with failure and
confusion, for which I am sorry. I'm honestly *trying*, but this stuff is
really opaque at times.
For instance, just this week I learned three new things:
1) To override parts of a distribution's systemd unit locally, you MUST
use the foo.service.d/ method. You can't just put the override bits
into an /etc/systemd/system/foo.service file. That would be too easy.
2) The files inside foo.service.d/ MUST end with a .conf suffix. (Cf.
the wheezy->jessie apache2 upgrade, and having to rename every single
one of my virtual domain config files AND the symlinks to them.)
3) foo.service.d/ must use the CANONICAL service name of whatever it is
that you're trying to override. This may not be the same as the
Debian package name. For example, the nfs-kernel-server package
creates a systemd unit named nfs-server.service with an ALIAS of
nfs-kernel-server.service. If you try to create override files in
nfs-kernel-server.service.d/ it will not work correctly. They have
to be in nfs-server.service.d/ instead.
Don't even get me started on sshd.service vs. ssh.service. Do you
have any idea how hard it is to notice that extra/missing "d", and
figure out why things Simply Do Not Work?
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