On Wed, 19.10.11 14:21, Richard Shaw (hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Ok, I took Jóhann's idea and ran with it, trying to preserve as much > of the functionality of the sysv init script as I could. It turn out > the need to change device permissions is only for people who want to > run mythbackend as a real user, not root. I'm not sure if the > following is valid, but here it is: > > [Unit] > Description=MythTV backend service > After=network.target mysqld.service > > [Service] > Type=forking > PIDFile=/var/run/mythbackend.pid > EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/mythbackend > Environment=MYTHCONFDIR=${MYTHTV_HOME:-/etc/mythtv} > Environment=HOME=${MYTHTV_HOME:-/etc/mythtv} > Environment=MYTHBACKEND_USER=${MYTHBACKEND_USER:-root} The ${...:-...} syntax is a shell syntax and not supported in systemd. You should be able to set set Environment=foo=bar first, and then place EnvironmentFile= after it, so that it can override the previous settings. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel