Baptiste Jonglez <bapti...@bitsofnetworks.org> writes: >> Awesome! Any chance of also including a 'babeld@.service' file to easily >> run babeld on a single interface without editing the configuration file? :) > > You mean, in the Arch package, in addition to the regular service > file?
Yeah, that was my thought. > By the way, the service file you posted earlier *does* require editing > a configuration file, /etc/babeld-%I.conf :) > > ExecStart=/usr/bin/babeld -D -I /run/babeld-%I.pid -S > /var/lib/babel-state-%I -c /etc/babeld-%I.conf %I Right, good point. Actually thought babeld would start fine if the file doesn't exist. Seems not. > Should we just tell babeld not to use any configuration file in this > case? Hmm, might be better. What I'd ideally like is something like 'use this config file if it exists, otherwise nothing'. Not sure if that is easily expressible in a service file. > Otherwise, we could just use /etc/babeld.conf, but we might end up with > babeld running on multiple interfaces even though the user only started > e.g. babeld@eth0... It would feel weird. Also, I don't know what would > happen if multiple instances of babeld run on the same interface. For > instance, what if somebody puts this in /etc/babeld.conf: > > interface eth0 > interface eth1 > > and starts both babeld@eth0 and babeld@eth1? Both babeld instances > would run on both interfaces. Yeah, that would probably be bad. I do believe my service file predates the ability to specify interfaces in the configuration file. Hmm, another thought would be to make the part after the @ specify a config file and not an interface. I.e. ExecStart=/usr/bin/babeld -S /var/lib/babel-state-%I -c /etc/babeld-%I.conf That would retain the ability to have separate independent instances of babeld, but not tie it to interface names. My use case for this is having a separate instance of babeld that is started along with my VPN connection (on the VPN interface, tied to the VPN service file). I need a config file for that anyway, so sticking the interface name in there is no problem :) -Toke
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