Hi Michael On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 09:46:22AM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote: > do we have something like virtual entities for systemd service files? In SysV > we could require that mail-transport-agent was started before starting a > service. But how is this supposed to be handled with systemd?
You can have aliases, like there exists one in form of syslog.service. For such aliases you just define normal After/Wants/Requires entries. However I really would start one step before. What exactly do you think a service dependency on "mail-transport-agent" does provide you? The virtual package "mail-transport-agent" provides you with /usr/sbin/sendmail to send mails. However to use this interface you don't need a service running (and several implementations of this interface don't have any service apart from cron). Regards, Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty!
