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