Bug 87320

Summary:	RFE: "systemctl" has no forwarding glue for Debian's update-rc.d for Sysv scripts, but probably should have it
Product:	systemd	Reporter:	tiposchi
Component:	general	Assignee:	systemd-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	systemd-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	martin.pitt
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description tiposchi 2014-12-15 09:46:18 UTC

The bug has been reported in debian as well.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=751638


Basically running

# systemctl is-enabled postfix
Failed to get unit file state for postfix.service: No such file or directory

So it is not possible for me to know if a sysvinit service is enabled or not.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2015-02-03 18:37:38 UTC

Currently, when we detect that a sysv service is to be modified we forward any requests to "chkconfig" as fallback. THis works corerctly on RH derived distros, but Debian doesn't have chkconfig, it has update-rc.d instead. I'd be willing to merge a patch that makes systemctl invoke that as fallback, instead. However, we'd need at patch from the Debian folks for this.

Comment 2 Martin Pitt 2015-02-27 05:24:54 UTC

The sysv-generator already figures out whether an init.d script is enabled or not, and generates the corresponding runlevel?.target.wants symlinks (or in master, {multi-user,graphical}.target.wants, but that's not relevant for this bug). So we could know this without having to ask chkconfig/update-rc.d.

Comment 3 Martin Pitt 2015-05-29 06:43:39 UTC

This became obsolete with http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=0f0467e63b0e068

Distros/Debian can now implement this check in their systemd-sysv-install script (I'm just doing so now).

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