Hi, I'm working on upgrading our route servers to the latest versions (debian stretch and the bird debian package 1.6.3. I need to specify during startup "-c /path/to/config/file" but whatever I do, it just gets ignored and still tries to use /etc/bird/bird.conf I have tried: - Editing /etc/init.d/bird and adding BIRD_ARGS="-c /etc/bird/bird-vlanid1-ipv4.conf" - Editing /etc/defaults/bird (deprecated??) - Editing /etc/bird/envvars - Editing the systemctl with "systemctl edit bird.service" as suggested here: https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1503154.ht... - Restarting systemctl daemon-reload There is clearly some step I am missing to make it pick up the config change, but I can't find what it is. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Rob root@rs1f:~# systemctl status bird.service ● bird.service - BIRD Internet Routing Daemon (IPv4) Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bird.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/bird.service.d └─override.conf Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-03-05 19:11:50 UTC; 19s ago Process: 305 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/bird -p (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 280 ExecStartPre=/usr/lib/bird/prepare-environment (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Mar 05 19:11:49 rs1f.lonap.net systemd[1]: Starting BIRD Internet Routing Daemon (IPv4)... Mar 05 19:11:50 rs1f.lonap.net bird[305]: Unable to open configuration file /etc/bird/bird.conf: No such file or directory Mar 05 19:11:50 rs1f.lonap.net bird[305]: bird: Unable to open configuration file /etc/bird/bird.conf: No such file or directory Mar 05 19:11:50 rs1f.lonap.net systemd[1]: bird.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Mar 05 19:11:50 rs1f.lonap.net systemd[1]: Failed to start BIRD Internet Routing Daemon (IPv4). Mar 05 19:11:50 rs1f.lonap.net systemd[1]: bird.service: Unit entered failed state. Mar 05 19:11:50 rs1f.lonap.net systemd[1]: bird.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.