Also checkout systemd generators (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 On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:07 PM Matt Schuckmann <matt.schuckm...@planar.com> wrote: > > 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 mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
