Depends on what exactly runs dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant. Is that done by networking.service (ifupdown)? NetworkManager? Are they standalone services?
I would generally expect Before/Wants=network-pre.target to work, but that relies on your network services themselves being set up correctly – they too need to order themselves After that target. On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 13:51 Mark Rogers <m...@more-solutions.co.uk> wrote: > I'm sure this is trivial but I've gone round in circles without success. > > I have a script which reads from an SQLite database and generates various > system configuration files - at the moment these are dhcpcd.conf and > wpa_supplicant.conf but this might grow in future. > > As such the only dependency the script has is that the filesystem is up > and running. But the script must complete before anything that the script > manages the configuration file for. > > My current unit looks like this: > [Unit] > Before=networking.service > After=local-fs.target > > [Service] > Type=oneshot > ExectStart=/path/to/script > > [Install] > RequiredBy=network.target > > Where am I going wrong and what is the right way to do this? > > I've also tried Before=network-pre.target and Wants=network-pre.target > without success - it was that not working that set me off trying to fix it. > -- > Mark Rogers > >
