help writing a service file for dropbox

[Steven Stern]

On 08/24/2014 08:52 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com <mailto:subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>>
> 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?
> 

That's the function of the file in /etc/sysconfig. It lists the users
who are.  Actually, this is just my system but I run a couple of dropbox
user accounts on it -- one as my main one and one to backup client websites.


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-- Steve