Re: [systemd-devel] Who has rights to override/ignore inhibitors?

2015-08-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 14.08.15 21:12, Jayson Willson (jaysonwillson...@gmail.com) wrote: Hello. I have realized, that my user (groups: tty,disk,mail,news,dialout,voice,sudo,audio,www-data,video,plugdev,users,mlocate,kvm,vboxusers,libvirt) can ignore inhibitors (such as root being logged in) using systemctl

Re: [systemd-devel] Troubleshooting Failed Nspawn Starts

2015-08-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 14.08.15 14:23, Rich Freeman (r-syst...@thefreemanclan.net) wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 10.08.15 08:03, Rich Freeman (r-syst...@thefreemanclan.net) wrote: We have watchdog (see WatchdogSec= documentation in

Re: [systemd-devel] network configuration

2015-08-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 14.08.15 19:50, Michał Zegan (webczat_...@poczta.onet.pl) wrote: Actually what is a procedure for more complicated network configuration, where you do not have something in networkd? Well, we try to cover a good chunk of the usecases, but we want be conservative when exposing options,

Re: [systemd-devel] Option substitution in unit configuration files?

2015-08-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 16.08.15 16:36, Malte Forkel (malte.for...@berlin.de) wrote: Hi, Is there some kind of option substitution in unit configuration files? Unit files are supposed to be simply configuration files, not a macro language. That said there is: 1) Specifier expansion in a number of

[systemd-devel] Option substitution in unit configuration files?

2015-08-16 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, Is there some kind of option substitution in unit configuration files? In a service configuration file, I specify the PID file and would like to re-use its name, e.g. PIDFile=/var/run/myservice.pid ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/touch %PIDFile ; /bin/chown myuser %PIDFile Thanks, Malte

Re: [systemd-devel] Option substitution in unit configuration files?

2015-08-16 Thread Mantas Mikulėnas
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Malte Forkel malte.for...@berlin.de wrote: Hi, Is there some kind of option substitution in unit configuration files? In a service configuration file, I specify the PID file and would like to re-use its name, e.g. PIDFile=/var/run/myservice.pid

Re: [systemd-devel] Option substitution in unit configuration files?

2015-08-16 Thread Malte Forkel
Thanks to both of you! I'd always encourage you to fix the daemon in question to make something like the above unnecessary. True. Since I'm only packaging the daemon, I can just guess its written as it is to make sure the daemon can remove the

Re: [systemd-devel] Method to Wait for service to complete

2015-08-16 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 12.08.15 18:34, Harry Goldschmitt (harry.goldschm...@quantum.com) wrote: I have a service that has to complete before boot can continue. Is there an approved method for doing this? Not sure what boot can continue is supposed to mean, but all systemd units support After= and Before=

Re: [systemd-devel] Method to Wait for service to complete

2015-08-16 Thread Harry Goldschmitt
On 8/12/15 12:32 PM, killermoehre wrote: Am 12.08.2015 um 20:34 schrieb Harry Goldschmitt: I have a service that has to complete before boot can continue. Is there an “approved” method for doing this? I have an ugly solution I’ve come up with… I’ve created a foo.target to run my

Re: [systemd-devel] Console screen blanks while long running service executes

2015-08-16 Thread Harry Goldschmitt
On 8/12/15 7:22 PM, Chris Bell wrote: On 2015-08-12 20:19, Harry Goldschmitt wrote: I just modified my grub kernel command line to add the consoleblank=0 parameter. That isn't the problem. First consoleblank is the kernel screensaver and according to the documentation it kicks in after 15