On 2022-07-17 15:17, Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr wrote
On Sun, 17 Jul 2022 17:39:35 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Actually, according to systemd-system.conf(5), it looks like the proper place to do this is with a file under /usr/lib/systemd/system.conf.d, similar to the old rc.d init files. Presumably that will avoid the setting being overwritten by a new install.
Well, that was a bust. Turns out that you do have to edit the standard file(s) to have any effect.
It works for me. Did you specified the [Manager] tag in the drop-in file ? Example: ## Weird: systemd seems to uses internally a ...USec name for that systemctl show --property=DefaultTimeoutStopUSec DefaultTimeoutStopUSec=1min 30s
mkdir /usr/lib/systemd/system.conf.d echo -e '[Manager]\nDefaultTimeoutStopSec=5s' > /usr/lib/systemd/system.conf.d/99-stop-fast.conf
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl show --property=DefaultTimeoutStopUSec DefaultTimeoutStopUSec=5s -- francis
This reminds me SO much of reading old IBM Red Books. You must thoroughly understand the *footnotes* to Chapter 22 before you can actually understand the third paragraph of Chapter 2. (Cannot now remember whether that was OS/2 or REXX... Lost to human memory.)
And also reminds me why Linux can be considered a cult, as there are arcane and unknown rules controlling how things work. Geoff