Re: [PATCH] systemd: add support initial systemd service files

[Jacek Konieczny <jajcus@jajcus.net>]

On 03/12/14 01:03, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
> 
> I've tested these on an OpenSUSE Tumbleweed source install.
> They are based on the ones from OpenSUSE but slightly modified.

These seems quite wrong to me. Why create systemd services, while they
are only wrappers to the old-style LSB scripts? What do we gain?

Systemd provides great process control and monitoring, but it can only
do that if it starts the process by itself – it knows the main PID then,
knows if the service is running, etc.

systemd can do a better job handling old init.d scripts through its
compatibility functions than when it is told to run such a script
through ExecStart/ExecStop.

> diff --git a/tools/hotplug/Linux/xencommons.service b/tools/hotplug/Linux/xencommons.service
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..8042b24
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tools/hotplug/Linux/xencommons.service
> @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> +[Unit]
> +Description=Xencommons - Script to start and stop xenstored and xenconsoled
> +ConditionPathIsDirectory=/proc/xen
> +
> +[Service]xenstored
> +Type=oneshot
> +RemainAfterExit=true
> +ExecStart=-/etc/init.d/xencommons start
> +ExecStop=/etc/init.d/xencommons stop


This is especially bad: two processes started through one service, no
startup status verified.

The right thing to do is to provide separate systemd unit for xenstored
and xenconsoled. If 'xencommons.service' is needed, to have a compatible
service name with the LSB scripts, then it should be a dummy service with:

Wants=xenstored.service xenconsoled.service

And both xenstored.service and xenconsoled.service should have:

PartOf=xencommons.service

Greets,
     Jacek