Necrobumping an old topic.
Both sockets and timers are in snapd now, but are not visible in snap services output, nor can be manipulated using snap(-ctl) <start|stop|restart> command.
I tried to experiment with this a bit and ended up with something like this:
$ snap services
Service Startup Current
lxd.activate enabled inactive
lxd.daemon enabled inactive
lxd.daemon.unix.socket enabled active
test-snapd-timer-service.random-timer disabled inactive
test-snapd-timer-service.random-timer.timer enabled active
test-snapd-timer-service.regular-timer disabled inactive
test-snapd-timer-service.regular-timer.timer enabled active
Sockets end up with <socket-name>.socket suffix, while timers (there is only one per service), are suffixed with .timer.
The the manipulation could be done like this:
# stop the socket
$ snap stop lxd.daemon.unix.socket
# start the service
$ snap stop lxd.daemon.unix
# start the timer
$ snap start test-snapd-timer-service.regular-timer.timer
# logs of the timer (i.e. when it fired)
$ snap logs test-snapd-timer-service.regular-timer.timer
No need for extra --timer|--socket switches. One can just copy & paste the service/socket/timer name.
I already have some changes and can propose a branch. I’m open to suggestions.