On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 04:07:35PM +0000, KM wrote: > Hello,Nothing I have found has solved this issue. the service > starts on boot, but the booting process continues. When I log in my > startup script is still running and finishes up. that is good at > least, but I'd still like to know how to make it wait. > Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks in advance.KM Your systemd service unit is behaving as it would if you didn't specify that user logins couldn't happen until the service had finished. I've done something like this by using a systemd unit that looks like this: (it's a trivial sleep, but you get the idea) # systemctl cat waitcommand.service # /etc/systemd/system/waitcommand.service [Unit] Description=Wait 120 seconds Before=systemd-user-sessions.service [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 120 ExecStart=/usr/bin/logger "Wait finished" TimeoutStartSec=125s KillMode=process [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target If you try to SSH into the host, you'll get an error like this until the service completes: $ ssh my host System is booting up. See pam_nologin(8) Authentication failed. $ The reason why I have the ExecStartPre is because the service won't be considered "started" until the ExecStartPre command finishes and the ExecStart can run. The unit says that it runs before systemd-user-sessions.service, which is what prevents user logins (and shows the pam_nologin prompt) until it starts. I also set a timeout with a bit longer than the expected time to run. Once my service is started, then user sessions can start. Kinda hacky but it probably will work for you. -- Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos