Bug 63621

Summary:	systemctl enable doesn't work for Alias names
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Michael Biebl <mbiebl>
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Michael Biebl 2013-04-17 06:00:05 UTC

Version: 201

foo.service:
...
[Install]
Alias=bar.service

systemctl enable foo.service works
systemctl enable bar.service does *not* work
systemctl disable foo.service works
systemctl disable bar.service does *not* work

It would be nice if enable|disable would also work for the Alias names.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2016-06-07 10:42:32 UTC

That would really mean that we'd have to honour configuration that is not applied. I am very sure we shouldn#t do that.

Also, note that this does work now, as long as the symlink is created in /usr, not in /etc. Closing hence.

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