thank you for the feedback. I tried using Before=systemd-user-sessions.service. At first glance it seems to work, but then the oracle DB shuts down. Note that myservices starts oracle and then does a few things for our application. When I remove that entry, it goes right to the login as I originally described, but the oracle DB does not shut down. maybe I have the wrong combination of timeout options with this other option or something, although the timeouts seemed to work also. Just thought I'd throw it out there. In either case, thanks for helping. I looked online for an explanation of the options for these files, other that the systemd manual page which is hard to use. I really couldn't find one. Any suggestions? Thanks again.KM From: Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 2, 2016 9:28 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] centos 7- boot doesn't wait for startup script to complete On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 12:56:21PM +0000, KM wrote: > # used to set up the Myservices onstartup > [Unit] > Description=Start and stop Myservices > > [Service] > Type=oneshot > ExecStart=/etc/init.d/Myservices start > ExecStop=/etc/init.d/Myservices stop > RemainAfterExit=yes > > [Install] > WantedBy=multi-user.target Reformatting so it is readable. What you probably want to do is to add something to the [Unit] section to make the completion of the be a requirement for the user login service. Something like: Before=systemd-user-sessions.service You will most likely also need to add a TimeoutStartSec= to your [Service] section to give it a longer time to run before systemd times out the service start. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos