[Podman] Re: delayed autostart of containers - ?

On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:36:46AM +0100, lejeczek via Podman wrote: > > On 06/09/2022 11:56, Daniel Walsh wrote: >> On 9/5/22 06:56, lejeczek via Podman wrote: >>> Hi guys. >>> >>> Would you know how, if possible at all, to delay an autostart of a >>> container? >>> >>> My specific scenario is such in which containers- auto-started by >>> systemd - reside under a net mount-point which is mounted at later >>> stage by ha/pcs(so containers fail to start @boot) >>> I'd hope that it's doable without extra & "external" scripts/tools. >>> >>> many thanks, L >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Podman mailing list --podman(a)lists.podman.io >>> To unsubscribe send an email topodman-leave(a)lists.podman.io >> Auto started containers in podman are started by the following unit >> files at boot time. >> >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/podman-restart.service >> /usr/lib/systemd/user/podman-restart.service >> >> Could you make sure that your unit file starts prior to these? >> >> > Now, with bit more tampering, I realize that the bit I "skipped" might be > crucial to the question - it is about rootless containers. > User's home - who owns containers - also resides under the same mount point > (different path). > So what happens when I 'ssh' to the user is: > > -> $ ssh appo@localhost > -> $ systemctl --user status -l xyz.service > Unit xyz.service could not be found. > > I have to: > -> $ systemctl --user daemon-reload > in order the have 'systemd' pick up such "missing" services which belong to > the user, but!!... that does make 'systemd' start such container, though now > it sees those containers, containers stay "inactive" > > I presume it might be more tricky with 'rootless' containers, a scenario > such as mine. Not exactly directly related, but if you're doing that you probably want to know about linger, which is how user units get started on system start without each user having to log in: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd/User#Automatic_start-up_of_syste...