Hi On Monday, November 24, 2014, D.S. Ljungmark <<a href="mailto:spider@aanstoot.se">spider@aanstoot.se</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 10/11/14 23:09, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 30.10.14 18:47, D.S. Ljungmark (<a href="javascript:;" onclick="_e(event, 'cvml', 'spider@aanstoot.se')">spider@aanstoot.se</a>) wrote: > >> Hi >> we have a service set to: >> ConditionFileNotEmpty= >> >> and >> >> Restart=Always >> >> >> This combination would (in my feebled mind) cause the service to restart >> once the Condition was fulfilled, but that doesn't seem to be the >> case. > > Conditions are something that are on-time evaluated right before we > would start a unit, and cause this starting to be shortcut. That's all > really. Restarts are only triggered when a running service dies, and > the start job queued by that will then check the conditions again. If > the condition doesn't hold then this start will not be executed, and > hence no restart ever again either... > >> Is there a way I can get a service to restart even after it has been set >> as inactive (dead) "start condition failed"? > > Nope, conditions are not for that. For the specific check of > file-not-empty there's no nice way to handle this, however for > directory-not-empty you could set up DirectoryNotEmpty=... > >> Should I simply remove the Condition, or something else? > > What precisely are you trying to do? > > Lennart Basically, some files (config & certificates) may not exist on a system until it's provisioned properly, something that may take a while ( a few days) After provisioning, we want the services depending on those file to start automatically.</blockquote><div> </div><div>Path unit files should work for you, <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.path.html">http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.path.html</a></div><div> </div><div>Umut</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> //D.S. -- 8362 CB14 98AD 11EF CEB6 FA81 FCC3 7674 449E 3CFC </blockquote>