Hi all, Quoting from another thread: On 5/09/20 4:36 am, Lennart Poettering wrote: > Unit instances can be activated on-the-fly without further prepartion > or regsitration of the instance string or so. it's sufficient if the > template unit exists. Is that preventable? I have some instance names that are easily typoed. When I start one with the wrong name, it sticks around trying to restart for ever - or at least till I notice it or reboot - where I'm much rather get an error message and stop. For reference, this is with the openvpn-client@ (and maybe openvpn-server@) units in Debian buster. Some of the content was modified/overwritten by me, so it could well be a bug introduced by me. The typos are because my instances are based on hostname, which can contain '-' but not '_'. Instance names can apparently not contain '-', so I have to use '_' instead, but my muscle memory for my hostnames is strong. I don't know if this is a result of the way the units are written, or an inherent issue with systemd. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel