On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 09:46:26AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Stephen Gallagher wrote on 30/04/15 14:04: > > On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 15:01 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > >> On Thu, 30.04.15 08:54, Stephen Gallagher (sgall...@redhat.com) > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Does set-linger persist across reboots? > >> > >> Yes it does. When a systemd is booted up with a user that has > >> lingering on this means that his user@.service instance is invoked at > >> boot, without waiting for any login. > >> > > > > One last question, Lennart: what is the primary use-case for the > > linger feature? When is it expected that users would want to use it? > > There are lots of potential uses. > > e.g. a user may want to run their irssi IRC client at all times > (connecting into it via screen or via proxy etc).
I'm using it primarly for two things: 1) having user services (like dropbox) run even when I'm not logged in 2) do some periodic tasks as user; systemd timers are more flexible than cron -- Tomasz Torcz Only gods can safely risk perfection, xmpp: zdzich...@chrome.pl it's a dangerous thing for a man. -- Alia _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
