Am 30.08.2012 02:50, schrieb Jan Steffens: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Thomas Bächler <tho...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> While creating systemd units for my packages, I found two problems: >> >> 1) I cannot force pppd fork to the background. While it is the default >> behaviour, the user can override that with the 'nodetach' and 'updetach' >> configuration options. > > Here's my instanced ppp@.service, if you're interested: > > [Unit] > Description=PPP link to %I > After=network.target > > [Service] > Type=forking > PIDFile=/run/ppp-%i.pid > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/pppd call %I linkname %i nodetach > > [Install] > WantedBy=multi-user.target > > I believe the "nodetach" on the command line will override what > happens in the config file. > The "linkname" option controls the pidfile name.
You use Type=forking with a process that doesn't fork - that's what 'nodetach' means: do NOT fork into the background. That doesn't seem right.
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