[pkg-go] Bug#840947: Bug#840947: Multi-line ARGS assignment in /etc/default/prometheus-node-exporter not suppored by systemd

Martín Ferrari tincho at tincho.org
Sat Oct 29 13:52:04 UTC 2016


On 27/10/16 10:29, Sam Morris wrote:
> As it turns out, the version of the package in unstable actaully does
> ship with a bad multiline variable definition in
> /etc/default/prometheus-node-exporter.
>
> (I got confused because I quickly installed the package on another
> system, to check whether the problem was one of my own creation, and
> did not realise that I had installed the older version that only added
> a single argument to the ARGS variable).
>
> The fix is to add trailing backslashes to indicate that lines should be
> continued. This is documented in systemd.exec(5):

Argh, stupid systemd is stupid.. not being compatible with shell syntax.

Anyway, will fix this. Thanks for reporting.


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Martín Ferrari (Tincho)



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