Bug#994981: /bin/systemctl: systemcdl edit doesn't work

[Michael Biebl]

Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible

Am 24.09.21 um 12:05 schrieb Xavier Bestel:

Package: systemd
Version: 247.9-1
Severity: normal
File: /bin/systemctl

Dear Maintainer,

When I try to edit systemd's config:
root@dev5:~# systemctl edit systemd-logind.service
Editing "/etc/systemd/system/systemd-logind.service.d/override.conf" canceled: 
temporary file is empty.

(the systemd-logind.service.d/ folder doesn't exist)

### Editing /etc/systemd/system/systemd-logind.service.d/override.conf




### Lines below this comment will be discarded

### /lib/systemd/system/systemd-logind.service
...



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lines?
Can you attach it to this bug report?

fwiw, this feature works fine here. Thus marking the bug report accordingly.

When you run that command, you should get your EDITOR started with the following text ### Anything between here and the comment below will become the new contents of the file If you do not actually make any changes, i.e. the file will be empty, it will be discarded. What kind of changes did you make betweenn the

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