[systemd-devel] StartTransientService problems

[Barry.Scott@onelan.com]

On Fri 31 Jan 2014 16:42:04 Barry Scott wrote:
> I have finally managed to get StartTransientService to run a process for me
> but I'm encountering issues:
> 
> we start a daemon that calls StartTransientService as required. The daemon
> does not run as root, it runs as "onelan". We configure dbus to allow
> "onelan" to call all systemd Manager APIs.
> 
> I want to set the User, Nice and Type of the service. I get the errors:
> 
> DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.PropertyReadOnly: Cannot set
> property User, or unknown property.
> 
> DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.PropertyReadOnly: Cannot set
> property Type, or unknown property.
> 
> DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.PropertyReadOnly: Cannot set
> property Nice, or unknown property.
> 
> What do I need to do to allow these properties to be set?
> 
> I also need to set the Environment. I can pass the environment in as a
> property but it does not show up the the process created or in
> systemctl status for the transient service. I do not see any messages in
> the systemd logging.

Correction I get an error for Environment as well.

DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.PropertyReadOnly: Cannot set 
property Environment, or unknown property.

> 
> And lastly what do I have to do to remove the transient service from systemd
> after the last process in the service exits? RemainAfterExit=no
> 
> Barry
> 
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Barry Scott
Head of Player Development
ONELAN Limited