Re: dependent services status

[Ted Toth <txtoth@xxxxxxxxx>]

The comment about inotify was just an example, I understand that there
is a 'notify' service type but I'm not using it because of its
documented shortcomings.


On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 11:34 AM Alvin Šipraga <ALSI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Ted,
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 08:52:00AM -0600, Ted Toth wrote:
> > I have a set of services that depend on each other however when
> > services are started and considered 'active' that does not necessarily
> > mean they are in a state that a dependent service requires them to be
> > in to operate properly (for example an inotify watch has been
> > established). systemd services, I think,  have a substate, is there a
> > way I can set that to a custom value to indicate the services idea of
> > its own state?
>
> If you set Type=notify in the [Service] block of the service definition
> file, you can use the sd_notify(3) API:
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/sd_notify.html
>
> Is that what you are looking for?
>
> Kind regards,
> Alvin