Excerpts from Colin Guthrie's message of Tue Nov 29 11:32:01 -0500 2011: > I think RequiredBy is just the same semantically as Requires (it just > allows the requirement to be specified in a remote unit), in which case > this section from the manual page (man 5 systemd.unit) should explain > things. Ultimately Wants/Requires do not implicitly guide the ordering > of service start, but Before/After do. With Requires/Wants both services > might be started at the same time and thus one service needs the other > to be up and running while it starts up, you will need to add the > After/Before keys somewhere. It's worth reading the rest of the man > page, especially the section on Before= and After=.
OK, so in this particular case, under some circumstances 'httpd' would "require" 'remote-fs' (namely, if your document root is on the remote filesystem) and would not require it otherwise. In this case of 'sometimes' requirement, should 'Requires' be specified? Edward _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
