On 19/07/20 9:34 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > 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.
Hmm. I know I gave an example of a specific typo, but in the general case there are rather a lot of non-existent possiblities :-) Still, I might investigate this if there aren't better options. Thanks, Richard
