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		xobs on Oct 19, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shall we fork Debian? You can add ConditionPathExists= or ConditionPathIsDirectory= to a Unit to check if one or more directories exist. You can also substitute the userid into commands with %U, so you could have it always chown before running the command, as you can have multiple ExecStart= directives. http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.serv... and http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit...

Maken on Oct 19, 2014 [–]

That sounds a bit like reinventing the wheel. Can you use the result of external scripts to conditionally launch processes?

asdfaoeu on Oct 19, 2014 | [–]

`ExecStartPre=` will do that.

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