Op ma 28 aug 2023 om 11:55 schreef Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@xxxxxxxxx>:
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 12:27 PM Cecil Westerhof <cldwesterhof@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On debian 12, when Itype:
> systemctl status spam
>
> and giving a tab I get:
> spamassassin-maintenance.service spamassassin.service
> spamassassin-maintenance.timer spamd.service
>
> Still:
> systemctl start spamassassin.service
>
> keeps giving not found.
>
Those units are probably listed as dependencies somewhere. Units
listed in Wants or After/Before are not required to exist.
> So systemctl thinks there is a spamassassin.service file, but when
> starting it does not find it.
>
> I do not find a spamassassin.service file on my system. The other
> three I do find.
>
> When using:
> find / -name spamassassin.service
>
> it does not find spamassassin.service.
> So why does systemctl think there is a spamassassin.service?
It is not the systemctl, it is your shell completion of the systemctl.
Just look at the output of "systemctl list-units --all" for
"not-found".
I have to clean up my system: there are 25 not-found services, 3 not-found targets, 2 not-found mounts and 1 not-found socket.
For spamassassin.service I see:
● spamassassin.service not-found inactive dead spamassassin.service
But when I give:
systemctl list-dependencies spamassassin.service
I get:
spamassassin.service
I looked into:
/etc/systemd/system
/run/systemd/system
/lib/systemd/system
But I do not find dependencies.
Where else should I look?
Maybe completion should skip missing units. At least for such actions
as "status" this does not look useful.
> And how do I make it forget it?
>
systemd cannot forget them as long as units depending on them are still loaded.
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Cecil Westerhof
