Systemd unit file: Can/Should ExecStart and ExecStop run a script?

[Jeffrey Ollie]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, reviving this conversation!
>
> I ran into the issue that user "mythtv" can not create the file
> "/var/run/mythbackend.pid". I see other services that have their pid
> file owned by their own user...

systemd doesn't really need a PID file to manage the service, can
mythtv be told not to create it?  If it insists on creating it see if
you can move it to a subdirectory of /run (like /run/mythtv) that is
owned by mythtv.

> Also, user "mythtv" can't write to the log file in /var/log/mythtv/

Change the ownership of /var/log/mythtv.

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Jeff Ollie