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Title: Adding custom systemd units to SME
Post by: mauro on August 02, 2021, 10:50:44 AM

I have two systemd units and I want to make SME10 aware of them.
It's a service and the relative timer, i.e. myunit.service and myunit.timer .
I understand I need to create a db entry like

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db configuration set myunit service status enabledbut what's the correct syntax for the timer?

Title: Re: Adding custom systemd units to SME
Post by: ReetP on August 02, 2021, 11:03:36 AM

You'll need Jean Philippe to answer this.

It is not as simple as just adding a config key.

Some of it is documented but I think more is required.

Start here, and check locally for presets etc to compare.

https://wiki.koozali.org/SME10_serviceControl

Title: Re: Adding custom systemd units to SME
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on August 02, 2021, 01:02:04 PM

timer are not supported, nor socket… only dot service files

please rather use cron, or you are on your own to have it working.

you need to create the entry in config db as you mentioned and you need to make it   WantedBy= sme-server.target.
To do that you need to create a folder /etc/systemd/system/servicename.service.d
and add a file in it 51custom.conf with content:
[Install]
WantedBy= sme-server.target

if you were to do a contrib you would create the dot d  folder in /usr/lib/systemd/system

Title: Re: Adding custom systemd units to SME
Post by: mauro on August 03, 2021, 10:16:36 AM

Thank you, i'll revert to the good old cron.