Re: [systemd-devel] Is it intentional that "systemctl cat" outputs "# /dev/null" for a masked unit?

2021-02-02 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Di, 02.02.21 10:34, Ulrich Windl (ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de) wrote: > Well, > > the subject says it all: I had masked a socket unit and the related > non-socket-unit failed to start. > Trying to see the definition of the unit with "systemctl cat" I only saw "# > /dev/null". > Is that

[systemd-devel] Is it intentional that "systemctl cat" outputs "# /dev/null" for a masked unit?

2021-02-02 Thread Ulrich Windl
Well, the subject says it all: I had masked a socket unit and the related non-socket-unit failed to start. Trying to see the definition of the unit with "systemctl cat" I only saw "# /dev/null". Is that intended? "systemctl show" still shows a lot of data... My idea was when "unmask" knows how