Start of systemd timers after install/update of a package

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 25.01.13 10:25, Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:53:02AM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > c) Or you could list them as "Wants=" dependency in your service unit's
> >    [Service] section. That means that whenever your service unit is
> >    started, your time unit is too. No need for preset file changes.
> > I think c) is the best choice if it makes little sense to ever run the
> > service without the timer unit. It makes things very robust. 
> > 
> 
> In this case, if the service is disabled ("masked", in the new terminology),
> would the timer still run, or does an inverse relationship need to also be
> spelled-out?

Masking makes a unit entirely unavailable to the system, and that
includes its dependencies.

It does make sense however for the timer unit to carry a BindTo= for the
service unit it belongs to, so that the timer unit goes away
automatically when the service unit is stopped.

Lennart

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