Am 08.07.20 um 11:01 schrieb Mkrtchyan, Tigran: > Dear systemd developers, > > I failed to get the answer to my question from other sources, so > here I am. > > We have a software that consist out of many components. Each component > is a single service, let say A.service, B.service, C.service However, > often you want to be able to start and stop them together. There are > two options that I am aware of: a grouping service of a grouping target. > > > I have tried both of them and both works. > > The target based solution doesn't have this artificial service, but sounds too > official - *target*. > > Active: active since Wed 2020-07-08 10:30:03 CEST; 6s ago > > $ systemctl list-dependencies mygroup.target > mygroup.target > ● ├─mygroup@A.service > ● ├─mygroup@B.service > ● └─mygroup@C.service > > > What is the best practice of doing this? targets [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ systemctl list-dependencies vmware-guest.target vmware-guest.target ● ├─guest-arrakis.service ● ├─guest-esxi.service ● ├─guest-testserver.service ● ├─network-up.service ● ├─vmware-modules.service ● ├─vmware-vmnet.service ● ├─vmware.service ● └─vmware.target ● ├─vmware-authentication.service ● ├─vmware-modules.service ● └─vmware-vmnet.service -------------------------------------- [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/vmware.target [Unit] Description=VMware Service Group Requires=vmware-modules.service vmware-vmnet.service Wants=vmware-authentication.service [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target -------------------------------------- [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/vmware-guest.target [Unit] Description=VMware Guest Group After=vmware.service vmware-modules.service vmware.target vmware-vmnet.service network-up.service Requires=vmware.service vmware-modules.service vmware.target vmware-vmnet.service Wants=network-up.service Wants=guest-arrakis.service Wants=guest-testserver.service Wants=guest-esxi.service [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target -------------------------------------- [root@srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/guest-esxi.service [Unit] Description=VMware-Guest ESXi PartOf=vmware-guest.target Requisite=vmware.service After=vmware-vmnet.service network-up.service Wants=network-up.service [Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=yes Nice=19 IOSchedulingClass=idle User=vmware Group=vmware ExecStart=/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws start '/mnt/data/fileserver/vmware/esx/esx1.vmx' nogui ExecReload=-/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws reset '/mnt/data/fileserver/vmware/esx/esx1.vmx' nogui soft ExecStop=-/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws stop '/mnt/data/fileserver/vmware/esx/esx1.vmx' nogui soft ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sleep 5 TimeoutSec=300 SuccessExitStatus=255 ProtectSystem=full CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL CAP_AUDIT_WRITE CAP_SYS_ADMIN CAP_SYS_BOOT CAP_SYS_PTRACE IPAddressDeny=any IPAddressAllow=localhost PermissionsStartOnly=true ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/chgrp vmware /dev/vmnet8 ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/chmod g+rw /dev/vmnet8 [Install] WantedBy=vmware-guest.target -------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel