On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 11:02:36AM +0000, Belal, Awais wrote: > Hi, > > I have a unit file which does something like this: > In ExecStartPre -> Start A > In ExecStart -> Start B > > Now the thing is B depends on A to function correctly and A is a binary > itself. The behavior I am seeing is a little obvious but still I thought > there might be a way around this. When the unit is started A is launched > correctly but then after some time it gets killed with a term signal 15 and > this happens before B is started and hence when B is launched it fails. > Here's what my unit file looks like...
Hi Awais, things started from ExecStartPre are supposed to be short lived, and everything remaining after ExecStartPre is done is killed. If B depends on A, then A and B should be separate units. > [Unit] > Description=B > After=xyz.service > > [Service] > EnvironmentFile=-/tmp/my.env > ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'echo "ADDRESS=`A --print-path`" > /tmp/my.env' Security hole BTW. > ExecStart=/usr/bin/B > > [Install] > WantedBy=graphical.target > > Any suggestions here would be highly appreciated. > > BR, > Awais Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
