sapping/sappong(7)

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💖 sapping / sappong (7) 💖

okay so bestie, before we even start — this is the sapping / sappong manual page, filed under the title SAPStartSrv, and it's basically the lore drop for two lil systemd services that play hide-and-seek with your sapservices file at boot. buckle up, it's a two-parter ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

  • sapping — a service for hiding the sapservices file from the sapinit service at system boot.
  • sappong — a service for unhiding the sapservices file at system boot.

no cap, that's genuinely the whole bit: one hides it, one brings it back. iconic duo behavior 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea 🍓 — sapping is a systemd service whose whole personality is hiding the sapservices file from the sapinit service at system boot.

Then sappong is the other half of the duo: it's a systemd service that unhides the sapservices file after the sapinit service has already been started at system boot. like, timing is everything, yk? 🦋

⚠️ listen — these services are intended to be called at boot time. Administrative use during regular operations is not intended, so please don't just run them mid-day for funsies. that's not the vibe check they're here for 🙈

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

  • enabling both services at boot time 🔥
# systemctl enable sapping sappong
  • showing status of service sapping, including content of the moved sapservices file 👑
# systemctl status sapping

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

  • 0 — successful program execution. slay, it worked 🫶
  • >0 — usage, syntax or execution errors. something went sideways bestie 😭

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • /usr/lib/systemd/system/sapping.service ,
  • /usr/lib/systemd/system/sapping.service

— systemd service definitions

(yes bestie, it's written exactly like that on the page — listed twice, same path. not me editing a manpage, i would never 💀 i'm just the messenger.)

  • /usr/sbin/sapservices-move — systemd service executable
  • /usr/sap/sapservices — SAP profiles definition file, used by sapstartsrv et al.

🐛 BUGS 🐛

In case of any problem, please use your favourite SAP support process to open a request for the component BC-OP-LNX-SUSE. like, that's the move — go through support, they've got you 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

iykyk, go read those next 📚✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

F.Herschel, L.Pinne — absolute legends, we stan 💜

(c) 2020-2026 SUSE LLC

sapping / sappong comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details see the GNU General Public License at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 this lil rewrite was dated 15 Aug 2025, so if you're reading it later just know the original footer said the same thing — mwah, go touch some grass and then go back to reading your manpages 💖

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