[systemd-devel] Boot ordering

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 19 March 2015 at 10:00, Christoph Pleger
<Christoph.Pleger at cs.tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>> I am experimenting a little with systemd and trying to define a new
>>> "intermediate" runlevel, a runlevel between basic.target and
>>> multi-user.target. This means that I want the services which are
>>> required
>>> by my new runlevel to be started after all services from basic.target
>>> have
>>> been started and to be finished before any service from
>>> multi-user.target
>>> is started.
>>>
>>
>> There is no feasible way to do it right now.
>
> So, if the original unit file multi-user.target contains
>
> After=basic.target rescue.service rescue.target
>
> this "after" does not really mean anything and jobs wanted or required by
> multi-user.target can already be started when some jobs from basic.target
> have not been started???

Correct.

You can move a service to be started earlier.

You cannot force move a service to be started later.

E.g. if foo.service is WantedBy=multi-user.target, yet bar.service
declares Wants=foo.service and bar.service is to be started e.g. for
basic.target, foo.service will be already running by the time
multi-user.target starts activation of its wants. (in simplified
description)

This is by design, and hard / non-needed to be fixed. However their
might be alternative solutions to your problem. What is the the
problem you are trying to solve by "implementing a new 'intermediate'
runlevel" ?

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.

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