From 67b6404b80cf8078f3d9ec6d4c2f34ac25b15077 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lukas Nykryn Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 11:30:18 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] man: using WantedBy=default.target is not a good idea We had several users, that wrote their unit files with WantedBy=default.target because it should be started "every time". But for example in Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, this often breaks for example selinux relabels (where we just want to do a relabel and reboot). --- man/systemd.special.xml | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/systemd.special.xml b/man/systemd.special.xml index 192d09732a9..5fa4baed204 100644 --- a/man/systemd.special.xml +++ b/man/systemd.special.xml @@ -240,6 +240,11 @@ names like single, rescue, 1, 3, 5, …; see systemd1. + + For typical unit files please set WantedBy= to a regular target (like + multi-user.target or graphical.target), + instead of default.target, since such a service will also be run on special + boots like on system update, emergency boot… -- 2.47.3