On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 08:52:00AM -0600, Ted Toth wrote: > I have a set of services that depend on each other however when > services are started and considered 'active' that does not necessarily > mean they are in a state that a dependent service requires them to be > in to operate properly (for example an inotify watch has been > established). systemd services, I think, have a substate, is there a > way I can set that to a custom value to indicate the services idea of > its own state?
For any given service, I sometimes introduce a ExecStartPost that would block until some resource is consumed (network port opened, lock created, whatever). Perhaps not the most efficient, but that's how I've enforced 'really up'. > Ted -- Brian Reichert <reich...@numachi.com> BSD admin/developer at large
