systemd is an alternative approach to SystemV init daemon for Linux. It is intended to provide a better framework for expressing services' dependencies, allow more work to be done in parallel at system startup, and to reduce shell overhead.
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Actkbd as service with systemd
A while ago I asked for how to stop a music player while the screen is locked. The answer was to use actkbd which works like a charm. Now I wanted to add actkbd as a service to systemd in order to ...
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Trouble with dbus and systemd/user
I have systemd set up so that using systemctl start user@me will start my user services as I expect, but my dbus one just won't go (which I need for PulseAudio).
Is there some way I can check dbus or ...
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No shutdown or reboot option in KDE4's menu
I obviously have the privilege to shutdown through dbus, cuz it works in XFCE4, but in KDE4, I only have an option to logout.
Any thoughts?
I start kde4 with dbus-launch --exit-with-session startkde
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OpenSuse 12.3 keeps renaming network interfaces?
After installing OpenSuse 12.3 (x64) on a server box with a single (onboard) NIC (assigned to eth0), all works fine so far (static IP, static route, no "Network Manager" - just the good old way).
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Why is systemd-coredump storing the dump in memory itself?
I just noticed that most of my memory was hogged by coredump of a few processes that I had killed recently. I had a systemd-coredump process running for each crashed process (usually the processes ...
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What's the right way to execute a script before system shutdown (systemd)?
I wrote a script that suspend all my virtualbox machines, and put a line in /etc/rc.local.shutdown, but it doesn't seem to work,
su - XX -c /XX
When I'm booted next time, virtualbox tells me the ...
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Restricting D-Bus access to the logged-in user via ConsoleKit or systemd
I need to restrict the client of a D-Bus service to only the user logged into the system locally, via ConsoleKit or systemd. How must I configure or write the D-Bus service to do so?
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dhcpcd can't startup at boot
when I run dhcpcd after boot everything works fine but when I try to add it to auto start systemctl enable dhcpcd@eth0.service, after each boot it's inactive
dhcpcd@eth0.service loaded ...
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Moving /dev/shm/ to /run/shm in Arch?
Dolphin (The KDE4 FM) would not receive file change notifications for /dev/shm, but for /run/shm.
So now I would like to migrate /dev/shm/ to /run/shm, but I couldn't find the corresponding part in ...
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What is the correct way to write a udev rule to stop a service under systemd
I'm running Arch Linux, and I have a udev rule which starts a service when a device is inserted. In this case, it dials a connection when a 3G modem is plugged in.
KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", ...
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Run backup on HD plugged with systemd
When I plug a HD via USB, it should a) mount it b) run my backup
script.
What I currently have is backintime.service
[Unit]
Description="Runs backintime to backup."
[Service]
User=user
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How to create rootfs for user mode linux on Fedora 18?
I want to create a rootfs to be used with a uml kernel and be able to use the internet. I was using febootstrap with packages: bash, coreutils, net-tools, iputils. After using ...
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Logout user with systemd
I start my window manager with systemd service units (following this tutorial).
After I log in at tty1 the following gets executed in .zlogin (I'm using ZSH as a login shell):
if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ...
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How to write a systemd script that runs usb_modeswitch and connects to the internet at startup?
I have a cisco AM10 wireless adapter and every boot, I need to run
usb_modeswitch -v 1307 -p 1169 -L -I -u -l
to get it to function as an adapter.
Then I have to run a netcfg profile to connect to ...
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Can't run vlock-cmatrixreloaded with acpid anymore, after switching to systemd
In the old days, I configured acpid to launch vlock-cmatrixreloaded when I press Fn + F2, now it no longer works since systemd handles TTYs, I just got a screen flash when I press those keys.
The ...
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How to make system startup to not wait on particular systemd service start
I have few virtual machines running under libvirt, and they are stared on the host system startup. This is controlled by libvirtd.service systemd configuration.
This delays the availability of the ...
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Chromium run from within systemd on Fedora 18 does not start
Target is building a Linux box, using X, to display commercials (there is a movie in background played by mplayer) and applets (like newsticker, delivered as web apps working locally).
I have ...
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Systemd/agetty: halt machine when session ends
Using LXC running a systemd based container, one automatically gets dropped into a console session on the container. By creating and modifying /etc/systemd/system/console-getty.service to have an ...
