On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 08:50:54PM -0800, whitivery wrote: > It is a system with several servers (various platforms/distros). > > One piece of software runs on all of the servers. For it to operate > correctly, the instance on one server (prime) must start before the others > (auxiliary). > > So a boot delay is added (via a script sourced from initscript, which > first waits for network to come up) to set the boot delay values for each > server - prime at 0, others at some other value of 15 to 110 seconds > depending on platform. > > But when it is necessary to manipulate the service interactively via the > "service" command, the boot delay needs to be bypassed. Well, the first thing I'd do is make the service wait for the network to be online. In the [Unit] section add Wants=network-online.target. Secondly, I'd try to find a way for the auxiliary services to ping the prime service to ensure its up, and make that script a ExecStartPre entry in the [Service] section. You'll want to adjust the TimeoutStartSec in case it might exceed the DefaultTimeoutStartSec in /etc/systemd/system.conf, which is 90 seconds. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>