Am 12.08.2015 um 20:34 schrieb Harry Goldschmitt: > I have a service that has to complete before boot can continue. Is there > an “approved” method for doing this? > > > > I have an ugly solution I’ve come up with… I’ve created a foo.target to > run my foo.service and set the default.target to my foo.target. After my > foo.service completes, I’m issuing “systemctl isolate multi-user” to > complete the boot. > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Harry
Because my first answer wasn't send to the ML, here again: > Hello Harry, > > so the first question here always is: why do you think your service > is so important that no other service should be run at the same time? > Can you give us more information about your service? Some > explanaition what it does and why it should run before boot completes > (which is quite the funny thing, because "boot end" is never defined > with systemd, because everyting is brought up in parallel only taking > dependencies in account). > > Regards Harrys answer > My product is a Linux network appliance and my service updates > platform and peripheral firmware as needed without human > intervention. For the updates to take effect, the platform needs to > be rebooted after updates. If a network card needs new firmware, the > network is shut down before the update. If a peripheral needs to be > updated, it is shutdown, too. It would probably be a bad idea to let > users log into the appliance only to shutdown peripherals and then > reboot after a firmware update. In addition we have several services > that should not be brought up before it is known that firmware needs > to be updated. > > Before systemd, we just ran the service early in the boot process. > 99.9% of the time the service did nothing and boot continued. If > something had to be updated, the service did the update and rebooted. In the end after I got his answer it boils down to http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/SystemUpdates/ Regards _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
