On 09/22/2014 09:18 AM, Dan Mossor wrote:
On 08/24/2014 08:52 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Steven Stern
> <subscribed-lists(a)sterndata.com <mailto:subscribed-lists@sterndata.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Ideally, I'd look at a list of users entered in a file in
> /etc/sysconfig
> and loop through ExecStart and User for each user, substituting
> the user
> name for "sdstern" on each.
>
> So, pointers on how to do things like this in a .service file?
>
> I don't think a dropbox like service really lends itself to system-wide
> startup. What if one of your users isn't signed up, or doesn't want to
> be?
>
> Richard
>
>
>
Then the service file simply runs an if/then loop, only initiating for
users that have ~/.dropbox-dist/ directory.
Can I treat a .service file like a bash script and do all those "loop"
sorts of things?
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-- Steve