Systemd service life cycle

[Colin Law]

On 9 April 2016 at 21:59, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:20 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 9 April 2016 at 16:44, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> "oneshot" is better for your use-case. I forgot...
>>
>> What is the reason for oneshot being better than forking in this case?
>>
>> I need to leave the tunnel process running so I would have thought
>> forking is a better fit.
>>
>> In fact this has all become academic (though still interesting) as I
>> realised that actually I would be much better to move the process at
>> the other end of the tunnel into this server and then I don't need the
>> tunnel, and in fact it is better there for other reasons anyway.
>
> It's for a unit that doesn't have any active processes after ExecStart
> runs. I've used it for setting up networking and firewalling, for
> example.

Is not the tunnel an 'active process' though?

Colin