On Wed, Sep 01, 2021 at 04:06:37PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-09-01 15:15, Brian wrote: > > * saned is socket activated. > > * [email protected] manages saned instances. > > * saned.service is masked because it is an empty file. > > * The file is empty to allow all instances to be managed together.
Sounds informative. Maybe thie Brian person knows a thing or two about saned and you should consider listening. > I reinstalled the OS because I didn't like the LVM and also I wanted it to > be EFI and not BIOS. > So thought I'd install Bookworm as I'm about it, got loads of errors purging > saned and scanbd, trying to get scanning to work again, something about > files not really being files. > I gave up and have reinstalled Bullseye as I know that works. > It's only a day to put everything back as I like, or maybe a bit more. Backstory. Probably irrelevant. > My original question was why do things get masked. Because the package maintainer thought it was a good idea, or because you, the system administrator, thought it was a good idea. You seem to think you can ask some kind of generic meta-question about masking and get a meaningful answer. You can't. You need SPECIFIC information about a SPECIFIC situation. YOUR situation. Pretending that the details of your situation don't matter is ludicrous. > "Systemctl status the-service" was saying it's masked because it's masked YOU CANNOT FUDGE THE SERVICE NAMES IN YOUR REQUESTS FOR HELP! Show the ACTUAL command you ran. Show its ACTUAL output. > which is not very informative but it must be a nightmare for the maintainers > to cover all eventualities. Well, what do you EXPECT? Do you think your init system has some way to know WHY it was given a command? And that it stores these reasons somewhere, and can cough them up on demand? Do you ask your shell why the user typed "ls /tmp"? What do you expect the shell to do -- guess the user's intentions? Do you ask your email program why someone sent you a piece of email? Do you ask your web browser why the URL you tried to visit has a 404 error? "Why" is not generally a thing that computer programs understand.
