Re: Michael Biebl 2018-03-02 <4c3431e8-36e3-d86b-4bb8-1f99eaa38...@debian.org> > Am 02.03.2018 um 13:45 schrieb Christoph Berg: > > > I agree that it is not helpful that it doesn't raise an error here, > > but I think it is working as intended by systemd. Or should we rather > > be using AssertFileExists here? But starting the non-existing "foo" > > service doesn't put "foo" into a permanent error state either. > > Why not just drop the Condition altogether? > This way you'd get a proper error message from posgresql, and it would > be easier to diagnose what's going wrong?
For the same reason that "systemctl start nonexisting.service" doesn't permanently leave nonexisting.service in a error state that is visible e.g. via "systemctl". I'd think that would be worse. Christoph
