Systemd unit file implementation questions (ypbind)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 14.04.11 12:55, Michal Hlavinka (mhlavink at redhat.com) wrote:

> 
> On Thursday, April 14, 2011 09:54:59 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a good solution for this?
> > 
> > Which service ( file ) is this.
> > 
> > I can take a look at to see which way is best to approach it.
> 
> It's package nut : /etc/init.d/ups, there are 3 services: driver, upsd and upsmon.
> All three services usually run on the same machine, but it's not the only use case.
> There is going to be slight change for yet another use case. 
> Better not to get inspired by init script, but think about situation where there are
> three services and some/all of them should be started based on variable in config 
> file (so existing configuration works).

I think it is a good idea to enable/disable services only at once place,
the init system, instead of adding additional per-service layers of
disabling. An admin should not have to know how each service is
specifically configured in detail just to enable or disable it.

That means: if the admin enabels a service in systemd, the startup
script should not refuse starting just because it is disabled in another
config layer. That would be very confusing.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.