Fedora disimprovements: am I alone?

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it> wrote:
> Chris Rouch wrote:
>
>> I'd agree that the systemctl syntax is clumsier. But on my machines,
>> the boot time has reduced dramatically.
>
> I agree that boot time seems to have been reduced,
> at a guess about 15% in my case.
> However, I hardly ever re-boot,
> so any saving there was outweighed many times
> by the fact that I had to read what seemed like a very long tome
> to discover how to start openvpn.
> I still haven't discovered the equivalent of "chkconfig openvpn on"
> under the new dispensation.

Unfortunately you have identified a *bug* in systemctl, wherein
`systemctl enable` doesn't work with '@'-type services.  There's no
reason why it shouldn't work, so I've filed it in bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806488

In the meantime, you can work around this bug by manually creating the
symlink `systemctl enable` usually creates.  So, if you have a
configuration file '/etc/openvpn/client.conf' and usually start the
service with `systemctl start openvpn at client.service`, you would run
`ln -sf /lib/systemd/system/openvpn at .service
/etc/systemd/multi-user.target.wants/openvpn at client.service` to
manually enable it.

-T.C.