On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 17:52 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > I know that running pulseaudio in system mode is discouraged, but there > are valid use cases. > > Is there an official upstream systemd service file for that? I found a > couple of variants on the internet, but I would prefer to use an > recommeded one? No, there's no official upstream file. I think it would be good to have one, though. Would you like to contribute a patch? > - Is is Type simple or notify? notify > - Should --disallow-exit be set? Yes, I think that's a good idea. > - I have found service files that use "After=sound.target dbus.service" > as well as "Before=sound.target". What is correct? To me it seems most sensible to have pulseaudio as a part of sound.target, so using WantedBy=sound.target would make the most sense to me. For dealing with the dbus dependency, I think Wants=dbus.socket and After=dbus.socket would be appropriate. My advice is not based on trying to actually run pulseaudio in the system mode as a systemd service. > - What is it WantedBy? If you use it in the pulseaudio service file, it makes pulseaudio a dependency for something else. See here for details: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html -- Tanu
