[systemd-devel] Start a global service

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 15.02.17 16:58, Damien Robert (damien.olivier.robert+gmane at gmail.com) wrote:

> 1) Feature request
> 
> I would like a way [as root] to start a service on all active user sessions.
> Typically to start a user service that was installed globally.
> 
> sudo systemctl --global start myservice.service
> 
> will start myservice.service as a root user service, not on the other user
> sessions.

Sorry, but this is unlikely to be added. I understand that this would
be handy, but this is semantically very questionable, as this would be
transition from privileged code into unprivileged code, and that's
something we can't really have.

> 2) Feature request
> 
> Something that could be usefull too is a special target (both for the user
> and system sessions) that is started automatically when there is ac loss,
> so that we run on battery, and conversely. We could even imagine systemd
> calling hooks like for systemd-sleep.

systemd is not really a battery manager, use services like upower for
that, which do provide similar hooks.

Lennart

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