[systemd-devel] Boot ordering

[Kai Krakow]

Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> schrieb:

> with foreground you have *no control at all* becasue systemd fires up
> the next service immediately, frankly systemd even don't know the
> startup time of "Type=simple" services, hence they are missing in
> "systemd-anlyze blame"

I wonder what's suitable for smbd/nmbd... My distribution ships it with 
default Type=forking and starts those services in daemon mode. But the man 
page tells that the suitable start mode for supervising init systems is 
starting the service in foreground mode.

Since your explanation makes sense, I wonder why there is that 
recommendation in the man page. In a systemd world my distribution default 
would actually be the right thing to do.

But then again, in openrc those services had a manual sleep to allow the 
services to become ready before another service may use it. This means, also 
smbd/nmbd are services which fork and return to the caller before they are 
really ready to serve requests. That makes me guess that probably many 
services out there are just wrongly designed.

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