[pulseaudio-discuss] Service File for running in system mode

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Thu, 2016-09-29 at 17:52 +0200, Florian Lindner wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I know that running pulseaudio in system mode is discouraged, but there
> are valid use cases.
> 
> Is there an official upstream systemd service file for that? I found a
> couple of variants on the internet, but I would prefer to use an
> recommeded one?

No, there's no official upstream file. I think it would be good to have
one, though. Would you like to contribute a patch?

> - Is is Type simple or notify?

notify

> - Should --disallow-exit be set?

Yes, I think that's a good idea.

> - I have found service files that use "After=sound.target dbus.service"
> as well as "Before=sound.target". What is correct?

To me it seems most sensible to have pulseaudio as a part of
sound.target, so using WantedBy=sound.target would make the most sense
to me.

For dealing with the dbus dependency, I think Wants=dbus.socket and
After=dbus.socket would be appropriate.

My advice is not based on trying to actually run pulseaudio in the
system mode as a systemd service.

> - What is it WantedBy?

If you use it in the pulseaudio service file, it makes pulseaudio a
dependency for something else. See here for details:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html

-- 
Tanu