Re: [systemd-devel] Starting services enabled by filesystem overlay over /etc/
Umut, That works, it took me a little while to get the details worked out because there are few resources that are unavailable when the generators run. Thank you, Matt S. Message: 1 Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:49:48 +0100 From: Umut Tezduyar Lindskog To: Matt Schuckmann Cc: "systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org" Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] Starting services enabled by filesystem overlay over /etc/ Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > Also checkout systemd generators > (https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.generator.html<https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.generator.html>). > A generator can overlay the /etc and generators should run before > systemd starts scanning the unit files. > Umut ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Re: [systemd-devel] Starting services enabled by filesystem overlay over /etc/
Thank you all for the responses. It sounds like I should look into creating an initramfs to mount my writable partitions and /etc overlay. I've never created an initramfs so it might take me a bit to work through it. In the mean time I've found that masking services does work with my overlay for enabling or disabling services. So my plan now is to leave the service enabled in the read-only rootfs and then mask or unmask it in the /etc overlay. This seems to be a reasonable workaround until I can get an initramfs in place; unless one of you helpful people tells me otherwise. Thanks, Matt S. [PS I hope this gets added to the correct thread, I'm only receiving digests and I'm not sure how best to respond]. ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
[systemd-devel] Starting services enabled by filesystem overlay over /etc/
I have an embedded system with a readonly rootfs. I've setup a very early service that mounts a writable aufs overlay over /etc/. The problem I'm having is systemd is not starting any services that I have enabled in that overlay that were not initially enabled in the readonly rootfs. ?I've tried placing a calls to systemctl daemon-reload or systemctl daemon-reexec just after mounting the overlay but the services are not started, after the fact systemctl will report that the services are enabled but inactive. What do I need to do to get systemd to automatically start the services that are marked enabled in that overlay? Matt S. ___ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
