[systemd-devel] [PATCH] units: add ConditionPathIsReadWrite for systemd-random-seed.service

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 10.04.14 14:00, Jonathan Liu (net147 at gmail.com) wrote:

> ---
>  units/systemd-random-seed.service.in | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/units/systemd-random-seed.service.in b/units/systemd-random-seed.service.in
> index 1879b2f..cbe000c 100644
> --- a/units/systemd-random-seed.service.in
> +++ b/units/systemd-random-seed.service.in
> @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ RequiresMountsFor=@RANDOM_SEED@
>  Conflicts=shutdown.target
>  After=systemd-readahead-collect.service systemd-readahead-replay.service systemd-remount-fs.service
>  Before=sysinit.target shutdown.target
> +ConditionPathIsReadWrite=@RANDOM_SEED_DIR@
>  
>  [Service]
>  Type=oneshot

What's the rationale here? I'd argue that the random seed service
*should* fail if /var is not writable. So what's the logic behind wanting
to conditionalize this?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat