[systemd-devel] start service only on specific exit status of some prog

[Marius Tolzmann]

On 24.08.2011 21:21, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Wed, 24.08.11 21:12, Marius Tolzmann (tolzmann at molgen.mpg.de) wrote:
>
>>
>> On 24.08.2011 18:52, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>>> Hmm, yeah, if ExecStartPre= we put the unit in failure mode.
>>>
>>> So, let me see if I got this right: you are looking for something like
>>> ExecStartPre= but twhere the program when it returns non-zero should
>>> just cause the service to be skipped but not be put in failure state?
>>
>> Yes. that's my request.
>
> I have now added this to the TODO list. It won't be easy to add this
> though, as execution extrernal processes synchronously is not an
> option. More likely I'll add an additional prefix char to ExecStart=
> (like "-") which would indicate skip-on-fail or so.

I think you mean ExecStartPre= here!?

And thanks for considering implementing this feature sometime.. 8)

regards, marius..