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Document how to apply local tmpfiles.d override #8684
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That's a safety precaution as specific tmpfiles rules are "destructive", they do stuff you really only want to do during early boot, and never later on. We mark those rules with Just invoke the binary on the command line with: |
Anyway, we could probably document the suggested command to apply changed configuration files in the documentation of those configuration files. We should probably not just do that for tmpfiles.d/ but for all our configuration files, actually, as it appears to be generally useful |
The documentation actually already describes how to do this, but it appears to not actually jive with the commands behavior. From systemd-tmpfiles(8):
However, trying this produces an error:
So I agree that at least clarification in the documentation is in order, or change of behavior to correspond to the documentation. |
On a related note, maybe we should add an option like |
We shouldn't imply that invocation without any parameters is OK. Also, mention that the service can be restarted. Fixes systemd#8684.
We shouldn't imply that invocation without any parameters is OK. Also, mention that the service can be restarted. Fixes systemd#8684.
Submission type
systemd version the issue has been seen with
238.51-1
Used distribution
Archlinux
In case of bug report: Expected behaviour you didn't see
Ability to restart tempfiles.d service in light of a local
/etc/tmpfiles.d/smokeping.conf
In case of bug report: Unexpected behaviour you saw
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