Delay service startup on boot?

[bjorntj]

I have several Java applications that starts at boot but these creates a heavy load on boot, so I was wondering if there is a way (or more ways) to delay the startup for these services, with different delay for each service?


Regards,

BTJ

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Are you aware of the existence of internet search engines? This question has been asked before and there are several answers available on the interweb.

I would use

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# systemctl edit name_of_system.unit

Then add

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[Service]
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30

That example adds a 30 second delay to the name_of_systemd.unit file. Mutatis mutandis.

[bjorntj]

Hmmm.. Didn't think about that way.... Thx..

[Head_on_a_Stick]

You should probably check that it works before thanking me. The man page says that ExecStartPre shouldn't be used for long-running commands because they will be fork()ed so it might not work at all. I would check myself but I've just hosed my GNU/Linux partition.

[bjorntj]

Ok, not that easy then...