[systemd-devel] No error even a Required= service does not exist

Uoti Urpala uoti.urpala at pp1.inet.fi
Mon Nov 25 16:19:48 UTC 2019


On Mon, 2019-11-25 at 13:22 +0000, Mikko.Rapeli at bmw.de wrote:
> Maybe you need Wants instead of Requires in the service file.

I don't think so. "Wants" is in the opposite direction - it explicitly
does not require the other unit to successfully start. Even with
"After=" specified, it just makes an attempt to start the other unit,
and will then start this unit whether that succeeded or failed.




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