How to start a service upon the output of a command?

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I would like to start a specific service after another one has completely started. Specifically, I need an OpenVPN service to be up and have completed its startup to start another service.



I would normally use After= but it does not work as intended with OpenVPN, which informs that it has started right after launch and before its setup is completed.



A solution to this would be to constrain the start of my service to the output or exit status of a script(*) (or to the existence of a file which would be crated by the said script).



Is this possible with systemd?



(*) The script would ping a host known to be accessible only via the VPN tunnel and exit once connectivity is achieved (or drop a file)




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I would like to start a specific service after another one has completely started. Specifically, I need an OpenVPN service to be up and have completed its startup to start another service.



I would normally use After= but it does not work as intended with OpenVPN, which informs that it has started right after launch and before its setup is completed.



A solution to this would be to constrain the start of my service to the output or exit status of a script(*) (or to the existence of a file which would be crated by the said script).



Is this possible with systemd?



(*) The script would ping a host known to be accessible only via the VPN tunnel and exit once connectivity is achieved (or drop a file)




systemd




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I would like to start a specific service after another one has completely started. Specifically, I need an OpenVPN service to be up and have completed its startup to start another service.



I would normally use After= but it does not work as intended with OpenVPN, which informs that it has started right after launch and before its setup is completed.



A solution to this would be to constrain the start of my service to the output or exit status of a script(*) (or to the existence of a file which would be crated by the said script).



Is this possible with systemd?



(*) The script would ping a host known to be accessible only via the VPN tunnel and exit once connectivity is achieved (or drop a file)




systemd




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I would like to start a specific service after another one has completely started. Specifically, I need an OpenVPN service to be up and have completed its startup to start another service.



I would normally use After= but it does not work as intended with OpenVPN, which informs that it has started right after launch and before its setup is completed.



A solution to this would be to constrain the start of my service to the output or exit status of a script(*) (or to the existence of a file which would be crated by the said script).



Is this possible with systemd?



(*) The script would ping a host known to be accessible only via the VPN tunnel and exit once connectivity is achieved (or drop a file)





systemd





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You can configure the service unit with



Type=notify
NotifyAccess=all


and make the last script (or a child of that) which is started by OpenVPN during initialization (wait for the desired logging output and then) call systemd-notify.






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    You can configure the service unit with



    Type=notify
    NotifyAccess=all


    and make the last script (or a child of that) which is started by OpenVPN during initialization (wait for the desired logging output and then) call systemd-notify.






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      and make the last script (or a child of that) which is started by OpenVPN during initialization (wait for the desired logging output and then) call systemd-notify.






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        Type=notify
        NotifyAccess=all


        and make the last script (or a child of that) which is started by OpenVPN during initialization (wait for the desired logging output and then) call systemd-notify.







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