Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

• tinsuke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have a service that pings the server:

  cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/ping-smb.service
  [Unit]
  Description=Blocks until pinging 192.168.1.10 succeeds
  After=network-online.target
  StartLimitIntervalSec=0
  
  [Service]
  Type=oneshot
  ExecStart=ping -c1 192.168.1.10
  Restart=on-failure
  RestartSec=1
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  EOF
  
  sudo systemctl enable ping-smb.service
  

  And then I make the fstab entry depend on it:

  x-systemd.requires=ping-smb.service
  

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had something similar when I used to mount an NFS share. I had a bash line that would loop ping and then mount once ping succeeds. Having a separate service that pings and making the mount dependent on it is probably the better thing to do. Should also work when put in Requires= in a .mount file.

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