On Du, 19 iul 20, 21:10:40, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running into a problem with systemd and my openvpn instances. > > To start a vpn, I run 'systemctl start openvpn-client@foo_host2' or > similar. That has to be an underscore, because as far as I can see, > using a hyphen/dash will break the instance mechanism. Of course, the > actual hostname has to have a hyphen, because you can't have an > underscore in the DNS. > > This means I will inevitably end up typing 'systemctl start > openvpn-client@foo-host2' by mistake. > > When that happens, it appears that systemd will try to start it, and > fail because foo-host2.conf doesn't exist - and try for ever. Showing > the status of foo_host2 works fine, of course, so I don't notice until I > look at the logs. > > Is this an inherent part of how systemd works, or is there a way to make > it return an error message, rather than silently trying the impossible? Without checking if this is even possible, try 'mask'ing the inexistent instances. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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