[systemd-devel] Boot Service on Select Motherboard Only

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and systemdkiosk at yopmail.com at 15/04/13 23:03 did gyre
and gimble:
> Question: how to boot ntpd.service on one PC and not others from the
> same USB stick.
> 
> Network Time Service computes clock tweaks for a motherboard. The idea
> is to run it on just one motherboard brand/model, or maybe serial
> number. If the USB stick boots another PC, then ntpd is bypassed,
> because the recorded values on disk are irrelevant and wrong.
> 
> The issues may well have more to do with udev than systemd, but I'd
> appreciate guidance. It would be nice to use stock ntpd.service, but I
> don't know if systemd can manage, or how a custom service may look if
> not.

Looks like something you could detect with a udev rule somewhere (i.e.
matching on some hw identifier) which in turn spawns the systemd unit.

Col

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