help writing a service file for dropbox

[Steven Stern]

On 09/22/2014 09:18 AM, Dan Mossor wrote:
> 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?
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
> Then the service file simply runs an if/then loop, only initiating for
> users that have ~/.dropbox-dist/ directory.
> 
Can I treat a .service file like a bash script and  do all those "loop"
sorts of things?

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-- Steve