Brian J. Murrell via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> I see on my EL7 machine with IDM (freeipa) installed that named-
> pcks11.service is actually set to disabled in systemd, but it is
> started at some point, presumably, directly by the ipa.service unit's
> /usr/sbin/ipactl.
> 
> This causes problems with other systemd unit dependencies, in
> particular with nss-lookup.target.
> 
> Ultimately we don't want the nss-lookup.target being reached before
> (all of) the lookup services have actually started including DNS which
> is started with named-pkcs11.service.
> 
> However in order for that to happen named-pkcs11.service needs to be in
> the same transaction as nss-lookup.target which it normally gets by
> being wanted (Wants) by multi-user.target which usually happens as a
> result of enabling a unit.  When enabled (systemctl enable ...) a
> symlink gets created from /usr/lib/systemd/system/named-pkcs11.service
> to /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ providing that Wants
> relationship that is needed and currently missing.
> 
> I have managed to work-around this by adding:
> 
> [Unit]
> Wants=named-pkcs11.service
> 
> to /etc/systemd/system/nss-lookup.target.d/override.conf but according
> to the systemd folks, this is not really the correction relationship
> and that the Wants really belongs to multi-user.target.
> 
> Ultimately, I wonder if it's really necessary to have named-
> pkcs11.service disabled and started by ipactl rather than being a more
> natural systemd unit, enabled in systemd, and started on boot by
> systemd.
> 
> Surely the complex set of mechanisms that systemd provides to express
> relationships and ordering is sufficient to have systemd start up
> named-pkcs11.service itself, isn't it?
> 
> As an aside, I also have:
> 
> After=named-pkcs11.service
> 
> in the [Unit] section of my /etc/systemd/system/nss-
> lookup.target.d/override.conf but I'm not positive that that is still
> necessary as it was just put there on my debugging path to getting to
> where I am now.  I have yet tried removing it and seeing if I get the
> same correct ordering of nss-lookup.target only starting after named-
> pkcs11.service.

named requires 389-ds to be running. It is easier to manage the order
within IPA than systemd.

I'd suggest to setting it After=ipa.service

rob
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