Uoti Urpala <[email protected]> writes:

> but as I said at the end of
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00206.html there's an
> automatic "Before:" dependency created from sockets to identically named
> services. So it shouldn't be necessary to give it explicitly.

Ah!  You did say this, and I forgot.  Thank you, that answers my remaining
question about the dependency ordering.  It would be good to get this
explicitly documented somewhere.

I should probably open a bug on systemd for the documentation issues we
discussed during this thread.

> If you want to make sure your service never tries to start without
> socket activation, it should have Requires=foo.socket; none of the
> default relations are strong enough to strictly prohibit starting
> without a socket. I think at least the case where creating the socket
> fails and admin manually says "systemctl start foo.service" would always
> start the service without a socket otherwise.

Yes, that matches my experience.  Adding Requires= fixed that case.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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