On Mon 19 Sep 2022 at 12:12:51 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Reco composed on 2022-09-19 14:46 (UTC+0300): > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 12:05:43AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > >> Anyone know what it takes to unmask nfs-common.service successfully? > > > Why would you need it with systemd? As of bullseye, nfs-common package > > just provide this symlink instead of the proper systemd unit: > > It was prompted by an error message trying to configure or enable something > else, > which I had already forgotten before posting, that said enabling it was a > dependency. > > > # ls -la /lib/systemd/system/nfs-common.service > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 28 2021 > > /lib/systemd/system/nfs-common.service -> /dev/null > > That's what masking looks like. Why is it masked?
My /guess/ is that it's because systemd doesn't need it: there's a systemd service for each component (imapd, gssd, … … ). However, if you don't run systemd, then all those services are started by an init.d script called nfs-common, turned on and off with /etc/default/. Cheers, David.
