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tchelovek

Member

Registered: 2015-08-11

Posts: 4

[SOLVED] systemd service timing on boot

Hi all,

not sure whether this is the right place to bring up the subject, I would have placed it to admin, but admin is closed :-(

Now here the issue:

Setting up an application that interacts with and depends on mySQL (mariadb) I need to run it as service right from boot. (Home automation with FHEM), while this worked perfectly as long as I had it operating on flat files, it refuses to autostart at boot time using a database, informing me, that no login into mariadb is possible.

After boot, manually starting works OK.

Inserting

After=mariadb.service
Requires=mariadb.service

wouldn't change a thing. While

ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c "sleep 10" 

does the trick

Is this "normal" behaviour or  did  I miss something here ?

cat /etc/systemd/system/fhem.service
# Modified 20200905 tar after changing FHEM to configDB

[Unit]
Description=FHEM home automation
# After changing from fhem.cfg to configDB FHEM doesn't start on boot.

# After=mariadb.service
# Requires=mariadb.service
# After/Requires mariadb achieves nothing :-(

After=network.target
Requires=network.target

[Service]
# Type=oneshot
# RemainAfterExit=yes
# Oneshot replaced by forking: arch wiki systemd

Type=forking
User=fhem

# Group=Network
# no betterance

WorkingDirectory=/opt/fhem
# ExecStart=/usr/bin/perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg
# Replaced with configDB.

ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c "sleep 10"
# This does it. mariadb takes too long to get ready.

ExecStart=/usr/bin/perl fhem.pl configDB
ExecStop=/usr/bin/perl fhem.pl 7072 shutdown

Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Last edited by tchelovek (2020-09-07 02:17:23)

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chaseleif

Member

From: Texas

Registered: 2020-08-01

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED] systemd service timing on boot

Sleeping was a solution here: https://forum.fhem.de/index.php/topic,1 … 93434.html

They had a Debmatic service, started with systemd, so the best solution was adding the debmatic service to the 'After' line:

After=network.target debmatic-startupfinished.service

Looks like the sleep is a solution, unless you can narrow down a specific service to list as a dependency that the fhem would work after.

tchelovek

Member

Registered: 2015-08-11

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] systemd service timing on boot

Sleeping was a solution here: https://forum.fhem.de/index.php/topic,1 … 93434.html
Looks like the sleep is a solution, unless you can narrow down a specific service to list as a dependency that the fhem would work after.

Thanks for your fast reply chaseleif,

as sleeping seems pretty kludgy, I nosed around a little in ARCH provided service files. Their location is published conveniently in the systemctl status message.

I found some hints in

/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service

Firstly I learned that multiple arguments can be put in one line.
Secondly they use a target

network-online.target

So I changed my service file as follows:

[Unit]
Description=FHEM - home automation server
Documentation=https://fhem.de/
Documentation=https://fhem.de/commandref.html
Documentation=https://wiki.fhem.de/wiki/Hauptseite

After=network.target network-online.target mariadb.service
Requires=network.target network-online.target mariadb.service

[Service]
Type=forking
User=fhem

WorkingDirectory=/opt/fhem
# ExecStart=/usr/bin/perl fhem.pl fhem.cfg
# Replaced by configDB

ExecStart=/usr/bin/perl fhem.pl configDB
ExecStop=/usr/bin/perl fhem.pl 7072 shutdown

Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This does the trick for me. I chose Requires over Wants, as it is reportedly somewhat stronger.

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