How to start and stop a systemd unit with another?

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Published on 2014-08-19T20:27:10Z Indexed on 2014/08/19 22:21 UTC
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I am using CoreOS to schedule systemd units with fleet. I have two units (firehose.service and firehose-announce.service. I am trying to get the firehose-announce.service to start and stop along with the firehose.service. Here is the unit file for firehose-announce.service:

[Unit]
Description=Firehose etcd announcer
BindsTo=firehose@%i.service
After=firehose@%i.service
Requires=firehose@%i.service

[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/environment
TimeoutStartSec=30s
ExecStartPre=/bin/sh -c 'sleep 1'
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "port=$(docker inspect -f '{{range $i, $e := .NetworkSettings.Ports }}{{$p := index $e 0}}{{$p.HostPort}}{{end}}' firehose-%i); echo -n \"Adding socket $COREOS_PRIVATE_IPV4:$port/tcp to /firehose/upstream/firehose-%i\"; while netstat -lnt | grep :$port >/dev/null; do etcdctl set /firehose/upstream/firehose-%i $COREOS_PRIVATE_IPV4:$port --ttl 300 >/dev/null; sleep 200; done"
RestartSec=30s
Restart=on-failure

[X-Fleet]
X-ConditionMachineOf=firehose@%i.service

I am trying to use BindsTo with the notion that start and stop of firehose.service will also start or stop firehose-announce.service. But this never happens correctly. If firehose.service is stopped, then firehose-announce.service goes to failed state. But when I start firehose.service, the firehose-announce.service doesn't start up.

What am I doing wrong here?

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