On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 04:53:29PM +0545, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hello Jakobus,
>
> On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 21:06 +0200, Jakobus Schürz wrote:
> > >
> > > I am currently testing with the changes you've mentioned (And would
> > > like to move to a socket based setup).
> >
> > For sure :-)
> >
> > Here are all my units for leafnode:
> >
>
> Thank you very much. With your setup in place, I have been able to
> successfully run leafnode with systemd integration. I tested it for
> around a week now and everything is working perfect.
>
> If I could add a wishlist, it is dependency of the fetchnews service
> unit/timer to runtime depend on network-online.target.
>
> As I understand it now, fetchnews will be triggered only if the
> network-online.target is active. So it does solve the service startup
> at boot time, ensuring that fetchnews does not get triggered until and
> unless a working operational network setup is in place.
>
> But like yours', my leafnode setup is on my laptop. Which goes through
> multiple suspend/resume and network cycles. There are also times, when
> upon resume there is no network (networkless location, airplane mode
> etc). Under such scenarios, systemd should only invoke such timers if
> an active network connection is available.
>
> Do you happen to know if we could configure the units/timers in such a
> way that it probes the network-online.target for actual network
> connectivity, and only then invoke the timers ?
>
> This would help not just fetchnews timer but also many user defined
> timers, that are dependent on network availability.
>
> >
> > This setup works on my Laptop. I use an own leafnode, becaue i need
> > groups from more than one news-server, but i only want only one
> > news-server in my thunderbird.
> >
> > With sudo in the cron-job, i get the described problems. runuser
> > works
> > for me (no xdg-user-dirs, no pam-systemd-session...)
>
> I think this (systemd) integration work is good enough to be included
> for Debian. Hopefully, Moritz will agree with these changes and
> integrate it.
Ack, I need to find some time to review and test this, then we can
integrate this into the package.
debdiffs welcome :-)
Cheers,
Moritz
