On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 13:38:37 +0100, Marc SCHAEFER <schae...@alphanet.ch> wrote:
>Debian supports conffiles: they are handled specially, changes from maintainer >are presented to the sysadmin at package upgrade or installation time >(conffiles can stay even if you remove a package, if you don't --purge it) and >you can accept them or not, merge, etc. > >However, AFAIR most systemd files are not conffiles (since that would >apparently conflict with some systemd internals), countrary to most >configuration files of all of the other packages of the Debian system [1]. > >Debian supports diversions: the package system will make sure the file will >always be updated elsewhere. That worked the last time I used it, but >I no longer use it on systemd. [2]. > >In emergency cases or in a RPM distribution, chattr +i could work (immutable) >:) > >However, the systemd supported way to do this is: copy the unit file from >/lib/systemd/system/ to /etc/systemd/system/ and then make the changes there. > >Which is AFAIK what systemctl edit XXX does as you wrote. Thanks for this information! I have found the following 2 files in lib/systemd/system/ that contain the unwanted setting --suppress-timestamps openvpn-client@.service openvpn-server@.service Since there is no client service created on this server, only a server for handling external calls, I assume that only the second file will be affected. In fact when I look there there is already such a file and it has the offending setting removed... It is timestamped 2024-01-25 15:41 So I have done this using the advice here already. But not "activated" the change.... If I have removed the argument --suppress-timestamps from the file in /etc/systemd/system/ as it seems like I have already done is then the only additional thing to do to restart the specific services or do I have to restart the server computer itself? I'd rather only touch openvpn since the server is busy doing all sorts of automatic things and I have to wait for an idle period there, which might never occur... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
