Systemd on vivid beta

[Colin Law]

On 10 March 2015 at 16:01, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org> wrote:
> On 03/10/2015 08:34 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 10 March 2015 at 00:38, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org> wrote:
>>> On 03/09/2015 03:02 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On 9 March 2015 at 18:08, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I'd start by adding "$network" to your "Required-Start" and
>>>>>> "Required-Stop" lines. It might create a better dependency translation
>>>>>> when a systemd .service unit is generated from the sysvinit script.
>>>>> More research led me to do that just a few minutes before receiving
>>>>> this, but it does not seem to have helped. Is the generated unit human
>>>>> readable?
>>>> Under "/run/systemd/".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Longer-term, you should look into migrating your mounts to systemd .mount units.
>>>>> OK. I am slightly put off by the fact that I got round to learning a
>>>>> bit about upstart and converting one of my scripts just before it was
>>>>> announced that ubuntu was changing to systemd :(
>>>> With systemd mount units, you can cheat.
>>>>
>>>> Set up an fstab line for your cifs mount, reboot, and look at the
>>>> .mount unit that systemd-fstab-generator will have created under
>>>> "/run/systemd/".
>>>>
>>> Gee... We used to be able to "cheat" and just add the mount line to /etc/fstab without a "noauto" option.  then mount -a did the trick... I guess that too complex for systemd to handle
>> Can one no longer do that?  It is not what I want though, I have a
>> dynamic network with devices coming and going, and the script
>> automatically mounts/unmounts them as they come and go.
>>
>> Colin
>>
> Ahhh... I misunderstood your need.
>
> For what you're talking about, I use autofs.  it mounts and unmounts filesystems as needed.  I used to use it for a server attached zip drive and it's most common use is network
> (CIFS and/or NFS) filesystems.  The appear as needed and when no longer in use, disappear.  No fstab entry, but the autofs configuration IS a bit arcane.  Once working, it's flawless.
>

My script is flawless too, except that it does not shut down cleanly
under systemd for reasons that will become clear at some point I hope.

I am going to put some diy logging to file in so I can work out what
is happening.  I will have a look at autofs too though.  Thanks.

Colin