Re: help writing a service file for dropbox

[SternData]

On 09/22/2014 09:18 AM, Dan Mossor wrote:
> On 08/24/2014 08:52 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Steven Stern
> > <[e-mail] >
> > wrote:
> > Ideally, I'd look at a list of users entered in a file in
> >
> > /etc/sysconfig
> >     and loop through ExecStart and User for each user, substituting
> > the user
> >     name for "sdstern" on each.
> > So, pointers on how to do things like this in a .service file?
> >
> > I don't think a dropbox like service really lends itself to system-wide
> > startup. What if one of your users isn't signed up, or doesn't want to
> > be?
> >
> > Richard
>
> Then the service file simply runs an if/then loop, only initiating for
> users that have ~/.dropbox-dist/ directory.

Can I treat a .service file like a bash script and  do all those "loop"
sorts of things?