Re: Systemd dependencies

[Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 10.12.18 um 21:26 schrieb Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS):
> I seem to be struggling with what should be a very basic operation. 
> I’ve seen similar questions posted to the list here and none of them are
> really adequate.
> 
> I’m trying to prompt the user to ask a question as the system is coming
> up (so the system can configure it’s network and other things based on a
> hostname the user enters).
> 
> I have this part working using system-ask-password which is executed
> using a oneshot/idle service unit.  However before the user can enter
> their response on the console the graphic display starts up.  In the
> unit file I’ve tried all sorts of combinations of Requires, After,
> WantedBy, RequiredBy, etc. to make the graphical.target happen only
> after this script has completed its execution to no avail.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.  I’ve thought of creating a new custom
> target and putting my service in it.  Is there a way to force another
> target not to start until another target is completely finished?
> 
> Just wondering why this sort of operation is so hard.

because you likely have some "Type=simple" stuff instead foking/notify
which don't ait for anything in your chain and no additional targets can
fix that
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