want to write a systemd service file where a user may not exist.

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 09:04:14 -0500, Peter Silva wrote:
> I don't want to create the daemon user on systems where
> it will only be used as a client, so in many cases the 'user'
> specified in the service file will not exist.   How to cleanly handle
> that?

Hi,

the Ubuntu policy is to auto-start everything that could be
auto-started, so you most likely need to chose another path to install
the unit.

Instead of

  /lib/systemd/system/foo.service

install it to e.g.

  /usr/share/doc/foo/examples/foo.service

Regards,
Ralf