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  • A pity, I will see if I can 'delay' the script completion, such that ExecStartPost can execute a bit later in time (or just combine everything into ExecStart as you suggest. Commented May 5, 2021 at 14:22
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    There's no reason why your ExecStartPost script can't keep repeatedly checking if everything's started OK (with a second or 2 or more sleep between each check) before it finishes. Whether you can output more status info to the journal log - I don't know....maybe print to STDERR Commented May 5, 2021 at 14:25
  • That's what I will try. Thanks for your assistance and advice! Commented May 5, 2021 at 14:27
  • @CvRChameleon if you have an answer that works for you, you should post it as an answer, not as an edit to my answer. and if you like your answer better than mine, then go right ahead and change your accepted answer (i won't be offended :-) Commented May 6, 2021 at 8:46
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    I think you should post that as an answer. You put in the work to figure it out. I just posted "nope, can't do it". An answer is whatever works, even if it's "you can't do it how you want, but here's how you can". Commented May 6, 2021 at 9:01