Systemd and Fedora 14

Posted Sep 6, 2010 8:15 UTC (Mon) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695)
In reply to: Systemd and Fedora 14 by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Systemd and Fedora 14

I thought the before/after only worked for start-ordering, not completion?

I don't care if you've started the network service+network filesystem handshake, the services using files in that area may only be started after they are finished, not before.

This sort of interaction happens in reality, mostly you can pass it off like "so fix the service so it notices the new filesystem" but my reality wearing an administrator hat is... different from that.

Systemd and Fedora 14

Posted Sep 7, 2010 15:08 UTC (Tue) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]

From reading some manpages:
http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.service.html
http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/systemd.unit.html

It sure sounds like they control completion ordering.

"After= ensures that the configured unit is started after the listed unit finished starting up, Before= ensures the opposite, i.e. that the configured unit is fully started up before the listed unit is started"

And, see the description of Type= on the systemd.service page.