On 9 Aug 2019, at 09:22, Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote: > > Actually as a user of my services I do not even notice any difference, so > for me it is: What is actually the point of starting them on demand? Unprivileged access to port < 1024. The socket-activated services can start as user since the port binding is done by the systemd, not the daemon. Ondrej -- Ondřej Surý ondrej@sury.org