Hi folks,
For complicated reasons, I'd like to have a service (lightdm) start
after sshd starts. (This is on CentOS 7.) I've tried adding
"sshd.service"
to the lists of "Active=" and "Require=" items in
/etc/systemd/system/lightdm.service (which started as a copy of
/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service), but these changes don't seem to
have any effect. Sshd still starts long after lightdm starts.
Any suggestions? For what it's worth, here's the entire
lightdm.service file:
[Unit]
Description=Light Display Manager
Documentation=man:lightdm(1)
Conflicts=getty at tty1.service
After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty at tty1.service plymouth-quit.service
livesys-late.service time-sync.target sshd.service
Require=time-sync.target sshd.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lightdm
Restart=always
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
BusName=org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[Install]
Alias=display-manager.service
Thanks for any help.
Bryan
hi brian, isn't the attribute named Requires (with an s)? stijn On 02/20/2015 07:50 PM, Bryan Wright wrote:> Hi folks, > > For complicated reasons, I'd like to have a service (lightdm) start > after sshd starts. (This is on CentOS 7.) I've tried adding "sshd.service" > to the lists of "Active=" and "Require=" items in > /etc/systemd/system/lightdm.service (which started as a copy of > /usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service), but these changes don't seem to > have any effect. Sshd still starts long after lightdm starts. > > Any suggestions? For what it's worth, here's the entire > lightdm.service file: > > [Unit] > Description=Light Display Manager > Documentation=man:lightdm(1) > Conflicts=getty at tty1.service > After=systemd-user-sessions.service getty at tty1.service plymouth-quit.service > livesys-late.service time-sync.target sshd.service > Require=time-sync.target sshd.service > > [Service] > ExecStart=/usr/sbin/lightdm > Restart=always > IgnoreSIGPIPE=no > BusName=org.freedesktop.DisplayManager > > [Install] > Alias=display-manager.service > > Thanks for any help. > Bryan > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
Stijn De Weirdt <stijn.deweirdt at ...> writes:> isn't the attribute named Requires (with an s)?You're right! But correcting that doesn't change the behavior. Sshd still starts after lightdm. Bryan
Hi again, I'm starting to get to the bottom of it. It looks like the file in /etc/systemd/system is being ignored. I noticed this when I did a: systemctl show -p "After" lightdm.service and saw that it didn't show sshd.service as a depencency. After editing the original copy of lightdm.service in /usr/lib/systemd/system and adding sshd.service there, things work as expected. Now the question is why does /etc/systemd/system/lightdm.service get ignored? Ahh! I think I see the answer to that, too. It looks like this directory contains a symbolic link called dislay-manager.service which points to the original lightdm.service. The thing that's being started at boot time is "display-manager.service"! Yep, that does seem to be the case: I put the original lightdm.service back to its pristine state, made /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service a symlink to my modified lightdm.service file in /etc/systemd/system and rebooted, and things work as expected. Now my only worry is that this symlink will get pointed back at the original file the next time an updated lightdm is installed.... Bryan
> On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Bryan Wright <bkw1a at virginia.edu> wrote: > > I put the original lightdm.service back to its pristine state, made > /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service a symlink to my modified > lightdm.service file in /etc/systemd/system and rebooted, and things work as > expected.Testing that it works on reboot is a good thing to test, but it is not the minimum necessary test. I wonder if you are forgetting ?systemctl daemon-reload?? Unlike with SysV init, changes to /usr/lib/systemd/system don?t immediately take effect. You have to tell systemd to reload the configuration files when they change.