On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Curtis Shimamoto <sugar.and.scruffy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/08/12 at 04:00pm, David Rosenstrauch wrote: >> Looks like it doesn't: >> >> [darose@daroselin ~]$ sudo systemctl enable qingy@tty6 >> ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/qingy@.service' >> '/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/qingy@%I.service' >> >> :-) >> >> >> Sucks that this doesn't work as advertised. It should be a >> no-brainer to be able to set up qingy on tty6. >> >> Thanks, >> >> DR > > Maybe you could simply remove the alias altogether. I mean, if you are > going to change it anyway, what is the difference between having it set > via an alias or by your specification after the @? > > It makes me curious why it would be called qingy@.service rather than > simply qingy.service if it is going to insist on being on tty1 either > way. Hi guys, I'm a bit late to the party, so I'll reply to everything in one go. AFAIK everything is working as advertised and intended, though maybe not as expected. To sum up, "systemctl enable foo.service" has the effect of looking for an [Install] section in foo.service and for every Alias= creating a symlink by that name to foo.service and for every WantBy=bas.target creating a symlink bas.target.wants/foo.service to foo.service. In this particular case it means that "systemctl enable qingy@.service" will create a symlink from getty.target.wants/qingy@tty1.service to qingy@.service. Contrary to what one might reasonably expect there is not yet a special treatment of service templates/instances so, as you have observed, "systemctl enable qingy@tty6.service" does not work. I have heard talk of improving this, but as far as I know nothing has yet come of it. It should be straight-forward to do the right thing: when a service instance is enabled, the WantedBy information should be looked up in the template. So if anyone is looking for an easy patch to get involved with systemd, this is your chance ;-) Cheers, Tom
