On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 09:18:23PM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 03:11:19AM +0200, Malte Starostik wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > > > Am Montag, 25. Juni 2012, 16:23:13 schrieb Dave Reisner: > > > The premise is fairly simple, given the below unit: > > > > > > [Unit] > > > Description=dhcpcd on %I > > > Wants=network.target > > > Before=network.target > > > After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device > > > BindTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device > > > > > > [Service] > > > Type=forking > > > PIDFile=/run/dhcpcd-%I.pid > > > ExecStart=/sbin/dhcpcd -A -q -w %I > > > ExecStop=/sbin/dhcpcd -k %I > > > > > > [Install] > > > Alias=multi-user.target.wants/dhcpcd@eth0.service > > > > > > All I'm interested in is making sure that the device is available before > > > starting dhcpcd for an interface. However, when I enable this unit, the > > > device alias is inactive after booting: > > > > not exactly answering your question, but dhcpcd 5.5.6 comes with this lean > > and > > clean unit: > > > > [Unit] > > Description=Lightweight DHCP client daemon > > Wants=network.target > > Before=network.target > > > > [Service] > > ExecStart=/sbin/dhcpcd --nobackground > > > > [Install] > > WantedBy=multi-user.target > > > > apart from the preferable --nobackground, this starts dhcpcd on all > > available > > interfaces, including those that only gonna appear later on. To fine-tune > > which devices to actually manage or ignore, you can then use > > /etc/dhcpcd.conf > > instead. And you only need one dhcpcd process, not one per interface. I > > even > > use that to assign static addresses and routes via dhcpcd, as I haven't > > found > > anything remotely as straighforward to setup the simplest of configs. > > > > Just some food for considerations, > > Malte > > > > Interesting! Thanks for pointing this out.
Anyone? Still curious if my original query is working as intended, a bug, user fail, aliens... _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
