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

[Colin Law]

On 11 February 2017 at 13:40, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> hi,
> On Sa, 2017-02-11 at 13:28 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> ues.
>>
>> As Oliver has pointed out it depends how it is installed (though
>> until
>> he provided the details I was unsure of what the difference is -
>> thanks Oli). Plenty of packages install not enabled. If I remember
>> correctly nodered is an example.  So I don't think it is an Ubuntu
>> policy, it is up to the individual package maintainer.
>>
>
> well, it is a debian policy (which ubuntu inherits) that all services
> of a package should be started at install time by default ... but that
> doesn't mean there isn't a way around it ;)

I stand corrected
Thanks again

Colin