From 4b9d3dc9748ec3f52a71b06f851f4398462a1c60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michal Schmidt Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:20:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] systemctl: verbose message on missing [Install] People still don't understand what the message implies. We have to be more verbose (or more intelligent and detect some of the cases automatically, but that's not so easy). https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884438 --- src/systemctl/systemctl.c | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c index 6d01756..3abd7dc 100644 --- a/src/systemctl/systemctl.c +++ b/src/systemctl/systemctl.c @@ -3782,7 +3782,16 @@ static int enable_unit(DBusConnection *bus, char **args) { } if (carries_install_info == 0) - log_warning("The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl."); + log_warning( +"The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled\n" +"using systemctl.\n" +"Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:\n" +"1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's\n" +" .wants/ or .requires/ directory.\n" +"2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has\n" +" a requirement dependency on it.\n" +"3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,\n" +" D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).\n"); finish: if (m) -- 1.7.10.4