Re: user unit file

[Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com>]

On Fri, 2021-03-05 at 22:45 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 05 mar 21, 12:53:24, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Right now I can't get this to work:
> > 
> > ~$ systemctl --user enable Test.service
> > Failed to connect to bus: No such file or directory
> 
> To save you some head banging after you fix this...
> 
> > ~$ cat ~/.config/systemd/user/Test.service
> > [Unit]
> > Description = Test Service
> > After = network.target
> > 
> > [Service]
> > WorkingDirectory=/home/bob/Test/
> > ExecStart = bash Test.sh
> > TimeoutSec=15
> > 
> > [Install]
> > WantedBy=multi-user.target
> 
> ... user units and system units are completely isolated from each other, 
> so your After= and WantedBy= won't have the expected effect.
> 
> 
> For WantedBy= you probably want (no pun intended) default.target 
> instead.
> 
> 
> This is a hack I'm using to order a user unite after a system unit is 
> started:
> 
> 	ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sh -c 'until systemctl --quiet is-active network-online.target ; do sleep 1 ; done'
> 
> 
> Note: you should read on network-online.target in systemd.special(7) if 
> you intend to follow my example.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei

Thanks Andrei!

-Jim P.