This feels like something I should be easily able to answer from documentation/Google, and failing that from somewhere like StackOverflow, without troubling systemd-devel, but all my efforts have thus far failed [1]
What is the correct way to ensure a script runs to completion before any networking units start? "The Internet" is abound with people asking the opposite question which hasn't helped my keyword-based searches. My use case (on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian if it matters) is that I have network settings stored in a database from which I generate network configuration files (eg dhcpcd.conf) on boot, therefore they obviously need to be in place before dhcpcd starts. (Similarly wpa_supplicant.) Ideally I'd like to be agnostic about the actual network stack in my unit configuration (so not setting dependencies relating to dhcpcd, for example) but at this point I've tried pretty much everything without success so I'm obviously doing something stupid. I have tried multiple approaches so far but by current service file looks like this: [Unit] Description=Config generation from DB Before=networking.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/home/mark/bin/db2config.py [Install] RequiredBy=network.target [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62574482/ensuring-that-a-systemd-unit-starts-before-any-networking - no responses there to date, feel free to respond there for reputation or else I'll update it when I solve it. -- Mark Rogers _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
