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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd not starting wpa_supplicant after last update
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:37:53
Message-Id: mbgp3q$uuh$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd not starting wpa_supplicant after last update by Rich Freeman
1 On 02/11/2015 03:20 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:37 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Yes, thank you! Did you use systemctl to make all the symlinks? I just did it
5 >> all manually and it works, but I'm not sure how I would have done it using systemctl.
6 >>
7 >
8 > systemctl enable <service>
9 >
10 > That looks in the unit's install section to see what target it should
11 > be associated with. This is actually a nice feature - with openrc it
12 > wasn't always obvious when things should go in the boot vs default
13 > runlevel, etc. But, all that command does is create the symlinks in
14 > the target.wants directory, so you can just create those yourself if
15 > you want to. That actually works for anything - you can effectively
16 > add a dependency to a unit by creating a directory of the appropriate
17 > name and symlinking the dependency inside.
18
19 The symlink that was puzzling me is this one:
20
21 wpa_supplicant@×××××.service -> /usr/lib64/systemd/system/wpa_supplicant@.service
22
23 The name of the symlink is not the same as the .service file it points to.
24 Is there a systemctl command that would do that for me?

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