Am 03.03.2018 um 09:57 schrieb Christoph Berg:
> Re: Michael Biebl 2018-03-03 <87ba8f59-ec84-d3ed-c162-1fd849256...@debian.org>
>> Well, I don't think those two cases are the same and as such should be
>> treated equally by systemd.
>> I see typoing the template name more like adding a typo to
>> ExecStart=/sbin/foobard /etc/typo_in_file_name
>> In this case foobard would most likely fail to start and systemd would
>> mark the service as failed. This is more comparable to your case,
>> because the template name is passed as a config option to the service
> 
> In that case the error is in a config file, and marking the service as
> faulty makes sense. In the unit@instancetypo case, there's nothing
> wrong with the system.
> 
> (Maybe I'm overzealous here, but my first experience with systemd when
> it became default in Debian was setting up postgresql@.service, and
> the fact that @typo was sticking around permanently was really
> freaking me out, so I was glad I figured a way to avoid it. Iirc
> "systemctl reset-failed" was only invented later.)

I think it would be better to just show the error.
Hiding those error messages makes it hard do diagnose that there was a
typo in the first place.


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