[CentOS] Systemd and systemd-sysv-generator

Wed Dec 30 07:38:43 UTC 2015
James Hogarth <james.hogarth at gmail.com>

On 30 Dec 2015 00:55, "Mike - st257" <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Joseph L. Casale <
jcasale at activenetwerx.com
> > wrote:
>
> > Instead of converting the sysv script, you could trivially write your
own,
> > the following
> > was tested against about 6 SNMP queries, the service stops and starts as
> > expected.
> >
>
> That's certainly an option.
> One that I was prepared to resort to. But curiosity has the best of me ...
> I would like to know why the SysV generator didn't do its job.
>
> And I wasn't able to find any "generated" unit files from those Dell
> OpenManage SysV scripts either.
>
>

The generators all run automatically when systemd reloads config.

The transient unit files created are in /var/run ...

Best way to see this is using systemctl (status|cat|show) <servicename> ...

I expect if you do this for your failing service you'll get a better
understanding of what's going on.