[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: User/Group overrides in a templated service triggered via timer

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Sep 7 08:21:58 UTC 2020



Am 07.09.20 um 10:00 schrieb Ulrich Windl:
>> Anyway, long story short: you typically do not enable services that
>> are only supposed to activated by timer units, enabling those timers
>> should entirely suffice, and the timers will start the services when
>> the time comes.
> 
> Interesting: I had expected that units using a timer would not be run when
> "disabled", meaning "timer" is just a trigger, but of no unit cares...

a timer is the same trigger as "enable" and get startet as part of the
boot process

* letsencrypt.timer
* letsencrypt.service

letsencrypt.service don't even have a [Install] section and can't be
enabled at all


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