Re: dependent services status

[Barry <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On 17 Nov 2022, at 20:03, Ted Toth <txtoth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I thought using sd_notify would be all advantages.
Service gets to set its state explicitly, no need for systemd to guess.

What are the shortcomings you are referring to?

Barry
> 
> 
>> 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
>