Bug 76914

Summary:	RFE: Resolve "%" specifiers for Condition*=
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	Graham Cobb <g+syncevolution>
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 Graham Cobb 2014-04-01 18:26:37 UTC

[This was previously reported by someone else at https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=758427 but they did not choose to report it upstream]

I am creating a systemd template file used to start various instances of my service.  Each instance requires its own configuration file.  I wanted to use:

ConditionPathExists=/etc/tinc/%I/tinc.conf

However, ConditionPathExists (and, I presume, the other conditions) do not use the %-specifiers.

If this is deliberate, please consider changing the decision as the conditions in a template are likely to often be dependent on the particular instance being created (the earlier bug report has an example of checking a particular tty device exists).

Comment 1 David Strauss 2014-04-06 05:49:32 UTC

ConditionPathExists= is part of the general unit configuration options. According to the "unit" man page, only the [Install] options accept "%" specifiers [1]. Additionally, for services, ExecStart= accepts them [2].

Because this seems like a reasonable thing to add, though, I've updated this issue to be an RFE.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html#%5BInstall%5D%20Section%20Options
[2] http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html#ExecStart=

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2014-06-23 16:56:03 UTC

We actually do honour specifiers in conditions in recent systemd versions.

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