Bug#727708: init system thoughts

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:

> I believe you can do this fairly easily.

> A is the service that needs to be reloaded when a network device shows
> up.  In A's service file, have ReloadPropagatedFrom=network.target and
> then make your ifup@.service include an ExecStart=systemctl reload
> network.target.  You probably want the same for ExecStop too, to handle
> interfaces going away.

Oh, thank you!  I didn't know about ReloadPropagatedFrom= and
PropagatesReloadTo=.  That looks quite a bit like an event.  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>