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Diffstat (limited to 'man/systemd.unit.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/systemd.unit.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/systemd.unit.xml b/man/systemd.unit.xml index b6e4a2233c..dbf56c26a5 100644 --- a/man/systemd.unit.xml +++ b/man/systemd.unit.xml @@ -2256,8 +2256,12 @@ OnFailure=failure-handler@%N.service services will have acquired an <varname>OnFailure=</varname> dependency on <filename index='false'>failure-handler@%N.service</filename>. The template instance units will also have gained the dependency which results - in the creation of a recursive dependency chain. We can break the chain by - disabling the drop-in for the template instance units via a symlink to + in the creation of a recursive dependency chain. systemd will try to detect + these recursive dependency chains where a template unit directly and + recursively depends on itself and will remove such dependencies + automatically if it finds them. If systemd doesn't detect the recursive + dependency chain, we can break the chain ourselves by disabling the drop-in + for the template instance units via a symlink to <filename index='false'>/dev/null</filename>:</para> <programlisting> |