[systemd-devel] run no more than one of foo at .service at a time

David Timothy Strauss david at davidstrauss.net
Mon Oct 5 14:29:51 PDT 2015


If you only want one instance running, why not just create one service and
reconfigure/restart it?

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015, 09:04 Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a foo at .service. When started as
>         systemctl start foo at abc
> I’d like all other currently active foo@… services to stop, and vice
> versa. All of the foo at .services are supposed to be mutually exclusive
> with each other.
>
> In foo at .service, I attempted:
>         Conflicts: foo at .service
> but that does not seem to do the trick (Starting foo at abc produces
> "Dependency Conflicts=foo at abc.service dropped”)
>
> I’d like to avoid having to enumerate foo at abc, foo at def etc. in the
> Conflicts section.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Johannes.
>
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