Re: masked service file
On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 04:06:37PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> On 2021-09-01 15:15, Brian wrote:
> > * saned is socket activated.
> > * saned@.service manages saned instances.
> > * saned.service is masked because it is an empty file.
> > * The file is empty to allow all instances to be managed together.
Sounds informative. Maybe thie Brian person knows a thing or two about
saned and you should consider listening.
> I reinstalled the OS because I didn't like the LVM and also I wanted it to
> be EFI and not BIOS.
> So thought I'd install Bookworm as I'm about it, got loads of errors purging
> saned and scanbd, trying to get scanning to work again, something about
> files not really being files.
> I gave up and have reinstalled Bullseye as I know that works.
> It's only a day to put everything back as I like, or maybe a bit more.
Backstory. Probably irrelevant.
> My original question was why do things get masked.
Because the package maintainer thought it was a good idea, or because
you, the system administrator, thought it was a good idea.
You seem to think you can ask some kind of generic meta-question about
masking and get a meaningful answer.
You can't.
You need SPECIFIC information about a SPECIFIC situation.
YOUR situation.
Pretending that the details of your situation don't matter is ludicrous.
> "Systemctl status the-service" was saying it's masked because it's masked
YOU CANNOT FUDGE THE SERVICE NAMES IN YOUR REQUESTS FOR HELP!
Show the ACTUAL command you ran. Show its ACTUAL output.
> which is not very informative but it must be a nightmare for the maintainers
> to cover all eventualities.
Well, what do you EXPECT?
Do you think your init system has some way to know WHY it was given a
command? And that it stores these reasons somewhere, and can cough them
up on demand?
Do you ask your shell why the user typed "ls /tmp"? What do you expect
the shell to do -- guess the user's intentions?
Do you ask your email program why someone sent you a piece of email?
Do you ask your web browser why the URL you tried to visit has a 404 error?
"Why" is not generally a thing that computer programs understand.
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