Re: [gentoo-user] A couple of problems with systemd

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 27 May 2022 19:51:06 -0400, John Covici wrote:

> On Fri, 27 May 2022 17:49:24 -0400,
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >
> > [1  <text/plain; US-ASCII (quoted-printable)>]
> > On Fri, 27 May 2022 17:03:29 -0400, John Covici wrote:
> >
> > > I have one service which always times out, but slows down the boot
> > > process.  It is
> > > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-networkd-wait-online.service.  Because
> > > many jobs wait in queue for a while, till this fails.
> >
> > Are you using systemd-networkd or something else to manage your
> > network?
> > > Also, I have a couple of services, ntpdate and proftpd which always
> > > fail because when they try to execute named has not started yet.  I
> > > can restart them once the system is fully booted and I can login.
> >
> > You can create a drop-in to require the service to start after named,
> > run "systemctl edit ntpdate.service" and add
> >
> > [Unit]
> > Requires=named.service
> > After=named.service
> >
> > That will create a drop-in file in
> > /etc/systemd/system/ntpdate.service.d containing your additions - you
> > can also create these files manually.
> Thanks.  I am not using    systemd-network or anything like that.    I
> created a service called network and use the %i and links in
> /etc/systemd/system/multi-user-target.wants to start my two cards.
> Maybe this is not the normal way, but when I first started using
> systemd, this is the best I could come up with at the time.

If you are not starting systemd-networkd, network-online will fail. You
only need to create a file in /etc/systemd/network to configure your
card, something like

[Match]
Name=eth0

[Network]
Description=Wired network
DHCP=yes

Then start systemd-networkd.service.


>
> I will try the drop-in, I had kind of forgot about them.
>
>




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