Re: running start-up script using systemd

[Berend De Schouwer]

On Mon, 2019-01-14 at 00:59 +0530, Danishka Navin wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  I have written a script which suppose to run at start-up and set a
>  given IP.
>  I can see systemd service is running when I check the status but I
>  can find the expected result (new IP).
>  
>  Is there anything wrong with the following format of the service
>  file?
>  
>  [Unit]
>  Description=Config IP
>  ConditionFileIsExecutable=<path_to_script>/script
>  After=network.target
>  StartLimitIntervalSec=0
>  
>  [Service]
>  ExecStart=<path_to_script>/script
>  
>  [Install]
>  WantedBy=multi-user.target
>  
>  Is it ok to restart network service with the script I use? 
Systemd won't let you run 'systemctl restart ...' inside of a service
script.  It's an attempt to avoid infinite loops, I think.

The last time I tried that I had to modify my script to nohup, sleep,
and then call systemctl.