Re: help writing a service file for dropbox

[Dan Mossor]

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.