Bug 687893 - RFE: do not abort when 'EnvironmentFile' does not exist
Summary: RFE: do not abort when 'EnvironmentFile' does not exist
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: systemd
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported: 2011-03-15 16:45 UTC by Enrico Scholz
Modified: 2011-03-17 00:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-03-17 00:20:44 UTC
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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).
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