On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 11:50:55AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote: > I'm sure this is trivial but I've gone round in circles without success. > > I have a script which reads from an SQLite database and generates various > system configuration files - at the moment these are dhcpcd.conf and > wpa_supplicant.conf but this might grow in future. > > As such the only dependency the script has is that the filesystem is up and > running. But the script must complete before anything that the script > manages the configuration file for. > > My current unit looks like this: > [Unit] > Before=networking.service > After=local-fs.target > > [Service] > Type=oneshot > ExectStart=/path/to/script > > [Install] > RequiredBy=network.target > > Where am I going wrong and what is the right way to do this? > > I've also tried Before=network-pre.target and Wants=network-pre.target > without success - it was that not working that set me off trying to fix it. RequiredBy=network-pre.target should be sufficient, but unfortunately lots of stuff (like systemd-networkd) that should have Requires=network-pre.target doesn't. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) Invisible Things Lab
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