[systemd-devel] Question on Before=

[Steve Dickson]

On 2/2/19 2:48 PM, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 02:42:15PM -0500, Steve Dickson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> In a.service  I have 
>>
>> [Unit]
>> Before=b.service 
>>
>> [Install]
>> RequiredBy=b.service
>>
>> when I systemd start b.service (which happens to fail) 
>> but... a.service is not being run.
>>
>> So I guess my question is what do I have to do
>> to ensure a.service is *always* run before b.service?
> 
>   Have you enabled a.service?
> 
No... I did not think I had to... I figured 
when b.service was started, a.service would be 
run regardless of being enabled or disabled.

Is that not the case?

steved.