Re: [02/05] Embedded with systemd: systemd and different modes

Andrei POPESCU <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 08:40:07 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.embedded,gmane.linux.debian.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Du, 16 nov 14, 20:52:13, Robert wrote:
> 
> To help with field debugging I currently check the state of one of the
> buttons at startup and if it is pressed, the unit starts the 802.11 in
> host (hostapd) mode and starts sshd.
> 
> This was trivial to configure with /sbin/init calling a shellscript that
> checks the GPIO and then chooses between two different runlevels. The
> runlevels are setup by making a few symlinks in rcx.d.
> 
> Since it is not possible to make decisions in systemd unit files, this
> has become much harder. I have a solution for this, but it is smelly.
> How would you solve this? This is quite a common use case (at least in
> the world I live in), and I will post my solution later but I don't want
> to poison anybodies thinking right now.

Just by having a quick look at the manpages, you have all the various 
Condition* directives (see systemd.unit(5)) and ExecStartPre= (see 
systemd.service(5)).

Maybe it would help if you posted your script?

Kind regards,
Andrei
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