[systemd-devel] User systemd unit files

[Chris Morgan]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> We have a build environment that we use to build our software for
>>> desktop Linux and we are currently using Yocto to build for an
>>> embedded target.
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a way for developers to use the systemd unit files for
>>> our services out of their user owned build directory during
>>> development so we can use the same files during development that we
>>> would use during production.
>>>
>>> I came across 'systemd --user' but I'm not having much luck starting
>>> this up as my own user as it looked like $SYSTEMD_UNIT_PATH was
>>> exactly what I was looking to set.
>>>
>>> Fedora 20 cli output:
>>>
>>> $ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
>>> Failed to create root cgroup hierarchy: Permission denied
>>> Failed to allocate manager object: Permission denied
>>>
>>> And some discussion on libreoffice pages seems to be indicating that
>>> 'systemd --user' isn't supported any more.
>>
>> Specifically, running `systemd --user` directly is not supported
>> anymore. The user mode still works, but only for one "user" instance
>> per UID, launched through user@<uid>.service (recent releases start
>> this automatically upon logging in).
>>
>> --
>> Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>
>
>
> Would support for the single user instance support what we are looking
> to do with our build setup?
>
> I'm open to mostly any approach but I'd prefer to use the unit files
> directly rather than a second script just for starting things up on
> the desktop environment. Plus it would let us test things like
> automatic service restart, logging etc.
>
> Chris


I'm not sure if I'm being clear with my question, if it would help to
explain more I would appreciate some questions that could help clarify
the usage case I'm trying to achieve.

Chris