[systemd-devel] blocking service on shutdown

[Reindl Harald]

Am 02.09.18 um 16:41 schrieb Ralf Sieger:
> Hi Harald,
>  
>> what exactly does "/usr/local/bin/wait_borg"?
> Small script which terminates whn no "borg" processes exist any more.
> 
>> why are the no dependecnies to the services it waits for?
> The process it waits for is not a service but a normal user program.
>  
>> "TimeoutStopSec=600" alone does nothing then prevent systemd kills the
>> whole service bfore that timeout is reached at shutdown
> You mean at shutdown this timeout is ignored?

no, i did not say that - i said it's the timeout after ExecStop will be
killed

the service below waits as expected until ExecStop has finish which is
when VMare Workstation powered off the guest after shtdown within it
triggered by open-vm-tools and has a limit of 5 minutes to do so

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[root at srv-rhsoft:~]$ cat /etc/systemd/system/guest-testserver.service
[Unit]
Description=VMware-Guest Testserver
PartOf=vmware-guest.target
Requisite=vmware.service
After=vmware-vmnet.service iptables.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
Nice=19
IOSchedulingClass=idle
User=vmware
Group=vmware
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws start '/vms/testserver/config.vmx' nogui
ExecReload=-/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws reset '/vms/testserver/config.vmx'
nogui soft
ExecStop=-/usr/bin/vmrun -T ws stop '/vms/testserver/config.vmx' nogui soft
TimeoutSec=300
ReadOnlyPaths=/etc
ReadOnlyPaths=/usr
CapabilityBoundingSet=~CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL CAP_AUDIT_WRITE CAP_SYS_ADMIN
CAP_SYS_BOOT CAP_SYS_PTRACE

IPAddressDeny=any
IPAddressAllow=localhost

[Install]
WantedBy=vmware-guest.target