lack of support for target creation.

[ArVincentr]

Hi,

Currently the module doesn't support the creation of the .target in case of instantiated services (declared by "PartOf" which I requested to merge #122). the goal is to have let's say a service.target which controls other services like service@aa / service@bb. The ultimate goal is to start / stop all our sub-services using systemctl start|stop service@*

Kind regards

[jordiprats]

Hi,
I'm adding this as future reference:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.target.html

root@shuvak:/etc/systemd/system# ls
apport-forward.socket                       display-manager.service        laravelqueue@.service    netdata.service                  snapd.socket          timers.target.wants
bluetooth.target.wants                      display-manager.service.wants  libvirtd.service         network-online.target.wants      sockets.target.wants  ufw.service
dbus-org.bluez.service                      getty.target.wants             lxd-containers.service   paths.target.wants               sshd.service
dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service          gpu-manager.service            lxd.service              printer.target.wants             sysinit.target.wants
dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service  graphical.target.wants         lxd.socket               queuelisteneypmergehook.service  syslog.service
default.target.wants                        iscsi.service                  multi-user.target.wants  remote-fs.target.wants           teamviewerd.service
root@shuvak:/etc/systemd/system# ls multi-user.target.wants/
atd.service             cups-browsed.service           lm-sensors.service      netfilter-persistent.service  queuelisteneypmergehook.service  ubuntu-fan.service
avahi-daemon.service    cups.path                      lxcfs.service           networking.service            remote-fs.target                 ufw.service
binfmt-support.service  docker.service                 lxd-containers.service  nfs-client.target             rsyslog.service                  unattended-upgrades.service
cgmanager.service       laravelqueue@meteoapi.service  ModemManager.service    nfs-server.service            smartd.service
cgproxy.service         libvirt-bin.service            mysql.service           open-vm-tools.service         ssh.service
cron.service            libvirt-guests.service         netdata.service         openvpn.service               teamviewerd.service
root@shuvak:/etc/systemd/system# ls -ld multi-user.target.wants/netdata.service 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 May 22  2016 multi-user.target.wants/netdata.service -> /etc/systemd/system/netdata.service

I believe we should be supporting the ability to manage a directory with symlinks to the actual services in addition to the .target file creation. Maybe it is even more useful to manage the symlink structure.

Thoughts?

kind regards,

[ArVincentr]

Hi,

thank you for having merged. this issue can be closed as well.

Regards

[jordiprats]

Hi Vincent,
I believe we should be also supporting the the ability to link services to a target using symlinks just like in the example above.

If you don't mind I would like to keep this issue open for keeping track of these changes as well

thanks,