On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 02:55:35PM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > Ok, I didn't know how to make the subject any shorter, but there's a > big BUT in this, but (hehe) first a summary. > > I have a user of MythTV that has capture devices which require a > firmware be uploaded. As a consequence, the /dev paths are not always > created by the time mythbackend tries to start. A solution to this is > to create a mythbackend.path unit file which will wait for the devices > to be created, BUT, they occasionally fail to initialize and the path > unit file doesn't seem to have a timeout option (or option for what to > do once the timeout is reached). > > A partial solution would be to use a timer unit file, but it too > doesn't do quite what I need. It doesn't appear that I can wait for > the start of one unit file (mythbackend.path) while starting a > different unit file (mythbackend.service) once the timeout is reached. > > I could use the same 'After=...' as I have on the main service file > which would approximate the same startup time, but that's rather > hackish. I am assuming that having two unit files (a path and a timer) > trying to start the same service isn't an issue and that the first one > wins. We use the following for the libguestfs live service: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=99-guestfsd.rules;h=ab4f6800bbd847307aceb2cb52e984524eaee52c;hb=HEAD http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=libguestfs.git;a=blob;f=guestfsd.service;h=482d1e2bf1fb1c791e3adfe3f58716c38edb6b3d;hb=HEAD HTH, Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
