[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Service activation

[Ulrich Windl]

>>> Wol <antlists at youngman.org.uk> schrieb am 13.02.2022 um 01:03 in Nachricht
<129b4e49-d22d-7efb-7fc6-a44e5faa24db at youngman.org.uk>:
> More fun getting things to work ... :-)
> 
> So I've got a service, scarletdme.service, which fires up my db backend 
> for running interactively. However, I also need a socket service for 
> remote connections.
> 
> I've got the xinetd files, but if I'm running systemd, I want to use 
> systemd :-)
> 
> So I've written scarletdme.socket, and scarletdme at .service, but the more 
> I read, the more I don't understand ...
> 
> Do I enable scarletdme.socket the same as anything else eg "systemctl 
> enable scarletdme.socket"? How does it know the difference between 
> scarletdme.service and scarletdme at .service? I get the impression I need 
> to put something in the .socket file to make it use scarletdme@ rather 
> than scarletdme?
> 
> 
> And once I've got all that sorted, I'm betting I'm going to have grief 
> getting it to work properly, so while it's not much to do with systemd, 
> is there any way I can get systemd to log all traffic back and forth so 
> I can debug it?

Maybe understandable documentation is where xinetd is still better tahn systemd ;-)

> 
> Cheers,
> Wol