On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Steven Stern <subscribed-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can I treat a .service file like a bash script and do all those "loop" > sorts of things? No, but you can invoke a bash script from a service file that does things in a loop. But that doesn't buy you much^D anything really over the initial initscript. ;-) A proper systemdish way to accomplish this would be to use an instance service for dropbox and use the standard systemd tools to enable/disable it for particular users instead of keeping the list in an /etc/sysconfig file. First, I'd suggest reading this nice introduction to instance services; it's not very long and afterward you'll have a full understanding of what's going on with my example below: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/instances.html To create an instance service for dropbox, instead of using "dropbox.service", create a "dropbox@.service" file (the @ is very important), with the following contents: -- [Unit] Description=Dropbox service for user %I [Service] ExecStart=/home/%i/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd User=%i [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target -- Once you have that, instead of managing the users it is started for with a file in /etc/sysconfig, just use systemctl to enable/disable it for users as appropriate. To enable the dropbox service for the "sdstern" user: # systemctl enable dropbox@sdstern.service To disable the dropbox service for the "sdstern" user later on: # systemctl disable dropbox@sdstern.service And, to see all the users dropbox is enabled for: % ls /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/dropbox@* -T.C. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
