The comment about inotify was just an example, I understand that there is a 'notify' service type but I'm not using it because of its documented shortcomings.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 11:34 AM Alvin Šipraga <a...@bang-olufsen.dk> wrote: > > Hi Ted, > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 08:52:00AM -0600, Ted Toth wrote: > > I have a set of services that depend on each other however when > > services are started and considered 'active' that does not necessarily > > mean they are in a state that a dependent service requires them to be > > in to operate properly (for example an inotify watch has been > > established). systemd services, I think, have a substate, is there a > > way I can set that to a custom value to indicate the services idea of > > its own state? > > If you set Type=notify in the [Service] block of the service definition > file, you can use the sd_notify(3) API: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_notify.html > > Is that what you are looking for? > > Kind regards, > Alvin
