Great, thanks! <div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Lennart Poettering <<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>> schrieb am Sa., 29. Apr. 2017, 19:32: </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 26.04.17 11:08, Benno Fünfstück (<a href="mailto:benno.fuenfstueck@gmail.com" target="_blank">benno.fuenfstueck@gmail.com</a>) wrote: > > I have the problem that I want to run a set of services that are isolated > > from the other services. In particular, I'd like to: > > > > * share some environment variables between these services, that aren't > > available for services outside the group > > * be able to stop all the services in the group and wait for proper > > shutdown > > * (would be nice) load services for the group from a different directory > > than the default one > > * (would be nice) be able to add transient services to the group with > > systemd-run > > > > Is such a thing possible with systemd? If not, is it feasible to implement > > something like this (even if it doesn't match exactly what I want)? > > > > Regards, > > Benno > > > > Just to add if that wasn't clear: I'd like to run this group for multiple > different sets of environment variables, and be able to "start" the group > for some assignment of environment variables (these variables will not > change during the lifetime of the group though) If you want multiple instantation you can use systemd's instance logic. i.e. you could have: mygroup@.target This target unit could then have Wants= deps on your various services, always passing along the instance identifier: [Unit] Wants=myservice1@%i.service myservice2@%i.service Then, insce the service units you'd add a PartsOf= dep back: [Unit] PartOf=mygroup@%i.target And then pull in the environment file based on the instance: [Service] EnvironmentFile=/path/to/my/env-file-%i.conf I hope that makes sense, Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat </blockquote></div>