[systemd-devel] clarification on daemon-reload

[Igor Bukanov]

On 19 May 2015 at 12:08, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 19.05.15 08:22, Igor Bukanov (igor at mir2.org) wrote:
>> In any case, I thought that if I add
>> a dependency like After=my-config-is-ready.target for most default
>> services that can be configured, load a config from a mount or
>> network, generate unit files and place them under /run and then call
>> systemctl daemon-reload, then it would work. But if daemon-reload does
>> not affect what was already scheduled, then I need a better plan.
>
> One option is to add a target you enqueue after installing the new
> configuration and reloading. Then, add all units that shall start to
> it as dependencies.

Thanks, that is a nice solution that does not sounds like a
workaround! And if a custom-network-loaded config wants to disable a
services that would be otherwise started by default, it could just
mask it.