Bug 687893

Summary:	RFE: do not abort when 'EnvironmentFile' does not exist
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla>
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
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Description Enrico Scholz 2011-03-15 16:45:13 UTC

Description of problem:

Please do not abort when the specified EnvironmentFile does not exist.  E.g. 'tor' has

| Environment = TOR_SHUTDOWN_WAIT=30
| Environment = TOR_NOFILE=4096
| EnvironmentFile = /etc/sysconfig/tor

which tries to set default values of TOR_SHUTDOWN_WAIT and TOR_NOFILE, and allows to override them optionally in /etc/sysconfig/tor.

Bug #684094 indicates, that a missing EnvironmentFile is fatal.

E.g. adding a '-' prefix (--> 'EnvironmentFile = -/etc/sysconfig/tor'), would be a way to mark such optional files.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2011-03-17 00:20:44 UTC

Turns out this is actually support since a while. Use EnvironmentFile=-/foo/bar to import an env file without triggering any warnings.

This is also documented in systemd.exec(5).