[systemd-devel] StartTransientService problems

[Barry Scott]

On Wed 05 Feb 2014 02:07:33 Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Fri, 31.01.14 16:42, Barry Scott (barry.scott at onelan.co.uk) 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.
> 
> These options weren't settable so far for transient units, because I was
> too lazy to make them settable. ;-)
> 
> I have added this in now:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=c7040b5d1c2c148f12b6a
> 5eef3dfce1661805131
> 
> Which should make them available via the bus for transient units. If you
> need other props like this, just let me know and I'll add them too...
> 

I just tried to set LimitCORE and that was rejected. Can you add this and the
other related LimitXXX items please?

Barry

> 
> Lennart

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