systemd interface name issue

Holger Schurig holgerschurig at gmail.com
Mon May 6 07:35:00 EDT 2013


Oh, my bad. I did "find -name *.service", not realizing that some autojunk
will modify an "*.service.in" file ...



2013/5/6 Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com>

> On 05/06/2013 10:52 AM, Holger Schurig wrote:
>
>> Yep, that's a bug in the *.service file.
>>
>> In systemd, a <servicename>@.service file shouldn't hard-code the "@"
>> part. As the hostap/wpa_supplicant git tree doesn't contain this file,
>> you should file a bug report with your distribution.
>>
>
> Actually, that file is generated when building wpa_supplicant with dbus
> configured.
>
> Regards,
> Arend
>
>  2013/5/5 zg <ml at mail.tsaitgaist.info <mailto:ml at mail.tsaitgaist.**info<ml at mail.tsaitgaist.info>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>     Hi,
>>
>>     I'm using arch linux, with wpa_supplicant 2.0-3, and systemd
>>     I named my wireless interface 'wifi0' instead of 'wlan0' so to avoid
>>     race conditions, as recommended
>>
>>     when trying to enable wpa_supplicant in systemd for this interface,
>>     I get the wrong link:
>>
>>        systemctl enable wpa_supplicant at wifi0.service
>>        ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/wpa_**supplicant at .service'
>>     '/etc/systemd/system/multi-**user.target.wants/wpa_**
>> supplicant at wlan0.service'
>>
>>     wlan0 is used instead of wifi0.
>>
>>     in */usr/lib/systemd/system/wpa_**supplicant at .service* I found the
>>     following line:
>>
>>        [Install]
>>        Alias=multi-user.target.wants/**wpa_supplicant at wlan0.service
>>
>>     wlan0 is hardcoded.
>>
>>     If I change it to
>>
>>        [Install]
>>        Alias=multi-user.target.wants/**wpa_supplicant@%i.service
>>
>>     the install link works.
>>
>>     Is this an bug/issue/…?
>>
>>     thx,
>>     zg
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