Bug 754863

Summary:	systemctl enable - does not create link
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	brian.broussard
Component:	systemd	Assignee:	systemd-maint
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	johannbg, lpoetter, metherid, mschmidt, notting, plautrba, systemd-maint
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Description brian.broussard 2011-11-17 23:37:18 UTC

Description of problem:
when trying to enable a service via systemctl the command fails.  
target service is openvpn for this discussion to be placed in the multi-user.target so service will operate at traditional runlevel 3 and 5. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 11 21:47:56 UTC 2011 
systemd-37-3.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
configure openvpn 
  in /etc/openvpn place client.conf, ca.crt, machinename.crt, machinename.key
  traditionally one would issue service openvpn start and the process pickup up the client conf file. 

thus issue systemctl start openvpn -- all is good. 

so ready to make the service come alive at boot. 

issue   
systemctl enable openvpn 
Failed to issue method call: No such file or directory

would have expected for a link to be placed in 
/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants
as
openvpn -> /lib/systemd/system/openvpn@.service

add this by hand reboot all is good.... 

thus the question:
should this work or am I not understanding the man page for systemctl??? I am a little confused.  If this is to work how does one specify the target? say just graphical(init 5) and not multi-user (init 3)?

maybe this is not a bug but a feature? 

Have a good day!

Comment 1 Michal Schmidt 2011-11-18 16:27:48 UTC

systemctl enable does not handle instantiated units. This is bug 752774.

> If this is to work how does one specify the target? say just
> graphical(init 5) and not multi-user (init 3)?

For this there is no support in systemctl. Manually creating the symlinks in the right directories will work though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 752774 ***