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Re: systemd and non-existent service instances

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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
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systemd and non-existent service instances Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-07-19 11:30 +0200
  Re: systemd and non-existent service instances Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-19 12:00 +0200
    Re: systemd and non-existent service instances Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-07-19 12:40 +0200
  Re: systemd and non-existent service instances Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2020-07-19 12:50 +0200

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