Delay startup of services (Linux)

[John_Sieminski]

They have a troubleshooting tip on how to delay the startup of the Wowza service on a Mac install. Can anyone share where to make this change on a linux install?

https://www.wowza.com/docs/how-to-troubleshoot-wowza-streaming-engine-installation (at the bottom)

[Karel_Boek]

In Linux the Wowza Streaming Engine and the Wowza Streaming Engine Manager are set up as systemd services. You can use systemd Timers if you want delay the start of a service; I found a pretty decent description here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers

However, if the reason for delay is that you’re waiting for another service to be running, you can use State Dependencies in systemd.

[John_Sieminski]

Thanks for the post. I will give it a read. It already has a depends on the network, but the network isn’t actually up even thought the service is up.

[Karel_Boek]

Make sure to use the network-online.target and not the network.target because the latter only checks if network is available while the former checks if network is up.

After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target