Questions tagged [systemd]
systemd is an alternative approach to SystemV and Upstart init daemons 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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Make OpenVPN restart upon new network connection on systemd
How would you go about making OpenVPN automatically restart upon connecting to a network?
The issue is that every time a network connection is lost, or if the computer is booted without a network ...
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How to get symbolized call-stacks with coredumpctl info?
I am trying to enable systemd coredumps containing call stacks with function names when printed with coredumpctl info, so that I can get a call stack without using gdb and/or coredumpctl debug (since ...
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systemd-coredump service fills /run/systemd/propagate until out of inodes
On my SUSE Linux, huge amount of coredump service directories were observed under /run/systemd/propagate/, sample as below, as of now /run has been totally filled with those folders without any free ...
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how to disable LLMNR on ubuntu 17.10
My understanding is that if i am using third party dns (google, etc) or dns provided by my ISP(comcast, etc) i do not need this feature on. I am attempting to disable it but setting LLMNR=no in /etc/...
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How to force fullscreen image at startup on DEBIAN 12
Under Debian 12 I use a script at startup via systemd, the latter launches a script. And it performs the following functionality: waiting for a removable device to be mounted, if detected, launching ...
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Quadlet containers not starting on boot - problem with network-online.target?
I've created quadlets to launch two different containers in an opensuse environment (microOS, to be specific). The quadlets get planted in /etc/containers/systemd during an automated install. I expect ...
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How can you pass hyphenated arguments (flags) to a template service unit?
[email protected] is my template service unit.
[Unit]
Description=my service unit
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/home/username/scripts/myprogram.py %I
I want %I to be --arg1 --arg2=/path/to/...
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Systemd ProtectHome & Allowing access to specific home directory
I'm having trouble with a systemd service with the following definition:
[Unit]
Description=Test
After=network.target
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/testuser/testdir
User=testuser
Group=testuser
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Applications fail when started too early via Systemd--what dependency is required?
RPI 3b+, Debian Stretch
I want to start a Qt applicaton via systemd. The app uses X and needs to open a display.
It always fails due to an Invalid MIT_MAGIC-COOKIE. But then systemd restarts it (on-...
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Why would systemd start a service before a defined "After="?
So I have a raspberry PI OS lite running bookworm, and I have installed PulseAudio onto it. The pi is setup to be a moonlight device for my TV (thanks Samsung for EoL SteamLink!). All it has to do ...
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systemd fills /run/systemd/propagate until out of inodes
I have configured Pyzor for rspamd following these instructions: https://www.rspamd.com/doc/modules/external_services.html#pyzor-specific-details
The instructions also have some systemd configs for ...
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SystemD doesn't automount folder in subdirectory of another mount, how to fix?
I have local file server which exports two places over SMB: \media and \something
I want to have them mounted as /media/MEDIA (\media export) and /media/MEDIA/something (\something).
To do it I ...
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X2Go: How to enable/disable
Documentation and various internet answers suggest x2goserver will have a service on systemd systems which can be started (or stopped, etc) with systemctl start x2goserver.
However, there is no such ...
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Why systemctl status shows a time in the future and the amount of time left?
When we issue "systemctl status", we usually get in the output, a line showing the status and for how long it has been in that status.
Like: (I issued that few minutes ago)
Active: active (...
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How to set static IP for 2 network interfaces in systemd linux
I have a Yocto distro that uses systemd (like ArchLinux) to allow static IP configuration via /etc/systemd/network/20-wired.network file.
I need to set a static IP for 2 network interfaces (eth0 & ...
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Systemd killed my vetcore service: "Deactivated succesfully"
So I created a systemd file for my netcore bash script on Linux. But when I start the service file, systemd keep killing it with the result "service: Deactivated successfully."
I tried to ...
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Nested variables in systemd EnvironmentFile
#File: /home/miles/temp/foo.env
ONE=/one
TWO=${ONE}/two
FULL_PATH=${TWO}/three
#File: ~/.config/systemd/user/foo.service
[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/home/miles/temp/foo.env
# prints ${TWO}/three
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Systemd service not restarting after VM reboot
I have a systemd service with the following unit file
[Unit]
Description=Custom service
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/my-script
Restart=always
Environment=FOO=BAR
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Delay restart on failure for systemd service
My systemd service file correctly restarts my executable if it fails with a non-success exit code. My service file contains:
SuccessExitStatus=0 129 200
Restart=on-failure
Since my executable ...
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How to get consistent ethernet device numbering on a Raspberry pi?
I have a Raspberry pi 3B+ with a custom Yocto Linux image.
I want the onboard Ethernet to be eth0 and a USB Ethernet dongle to be eth1 or something else such as usb_eth0.
One pi consistently numbered ...
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Best practices for running a rootless container as a systemd service with User= or --user?
I'm experimenting with running rootless containers with Podman as systemd services. I'd also like to run the services themselves with non-root privileges, either:
a) as a system service, but with User=...
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Unable to start service, auth could not identify password for
Im trying to start a linux service, however im getting the below issue when im trying to start the service. Please help with a solution of how to fix this issue
The user Test_user is set with ALL=(...
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systemd "status=203/EXEC" error when creating new service
I've created a new service for a Python script that works when running standalone but gives errors below when run through systemd :
Oct 02 12:17:09 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started Read pressure And ...
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migrating app from upstart to systemctl failing with 'dead'
new to this area, and trying to setup this project on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
https://github.com/thoukydides/heatmiser-wifi
the project is no longer maintained, but the instructions talk about using ...
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Setting console font in vconsole.conf does not work (systemd)
I am trying to set a different default console font for my new Arch Linux installation (using systemd).
I set up my vconsole.conf in /etc as so:
KEYMAP=us
FONT=Lat2-Terminus16
I rebooted and saw my ...
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High CPU Usage from systemd-udevd
I have a dell studio 1569 and just installed linux onto it. I noticed that the cpu has been running high due to systemd-udevd. Going though different posts on the web including this one, I used "...
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how to configure kata containers to work with systemd
I am trying to run kata containers with systemd using containerd on my ubuntu 22.04 machine, but I cannot manage to make it work. My expectation is to be able to run all the processes inside the ...
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systemd & python logging
I wrote a simple python3 skript and want to make a service from it. Here are the two files
#!/bin/python3
while True:
print('True')
Systemd Service:
[Unit]
Description=True Service
[Service]
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systemd does not consistently capture and log stdout
I have a minimal script managed by a oneshot systemd service. Sometimes the stdout echoed by this script appears in the systemd logs. Sometimes it does not. It randomly appears about 50% of the time.
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VNC Server immediately crashes
So, I recently installed the tigervnc package on Arch Linux (uname -r 4.18.10-arch1-1-ARCH). I'm trying to get the VNC server to run trough SSH tunnels, so I'm starting the server on localhost only ...
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Is the systemd instance name specifier %i redundant when referring to templated dependencies?
Do we need to use the instance name specifier (%i) in templates when referring to other templated services, or can we assume the instance name is inferred?
Many examples follow this pattern (e.g. ...
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How can I make a systemd service start after the *completion* of another service?
I always run into cases where I need a program associated with service A to run to completion before service B. "After" does not scratch this itch. After says
Most importantly, for service ...
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Reverse tunnel using systemd
I have this service file to make a reverse SSH, works fine, on the other server I can see it, problem is I left it over night, in the morning I've checked the service was active but on the other ...
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nfs unmount on shutdown
I have a laptop with debian that I am mainly using on my home wifi. To access some network disks, I have a few lines like these in /etc/fstab:
disk:/media/vol0 /home/disk0 nfs4 noauto,x-systemd....
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How to avoid systemd periodic realtime timer running at boot
I have a realtime timer with Persistent=false running immediately after boot although my objective is to run it periodically!
I saw it is a rather common question but none of the answers I found in ...
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tmpfiles.d glob for directories only
According to the documentation, I should be able to use globs to specify a path, however it seems that using /*/ glob for directories isn't supported, is this because this type of glob is part of an &...
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CentOS systemd places service subprocesses started with `sudo` in `user.slice` (instead of `system.slice`)
Subprocesses that are created using sudo within a systemd service are placed in the user.slice. This behavior has been observed only on CentOS 8 (x86_64 20230606) and not on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS, where ...
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I get permission denied for a command in an sh script, but same command works from terminal
I have a service run by systemctl in RedHat 8.8. The service itself is relatively simple:
cat /etc/systemd/system/myservice.service
[Unit]
Description=My service
After=network-online.target
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How to disable core dump of a specific process (Syslog-ng in my case) of Systemd
I want to permanent disable generating core-dump of a specific process/service of systemd.
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Put user's unit file in non-default location
My distro is RHEL 8.6. By default, all user's unit files are put in the /home/myuser/.config/systemd/user directory, then systemctl --user daemon-reload make them available. My question is how I ...
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running a Bash script within its working folder
I have a script done in Bash which runs a file on the folder where the script is located, passes a few config files and outputs a log on the same folder. For example this would be the structure:
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Print only timestamp and message in journalctl
I'm trying to get the last few lines from journalctl so I can feed them into my conky. However journalctl by default provides too much crap that wastes space: With journalctl -u PROCESS -n 5 --no-...
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journalctl list until last unit start
A common task one wishes to do, when debugging a service that fails to load, is to look at all log from the last time the service was started.
For example, given
Jul 25 08:18:20 raspberrypi ngrok[...
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On systemctl start, "Failed to start gitlab-runner.service: Unit is not loaded properly: Bad message."
Whenever I run systemctl start gitlab-runner.service I get,
systemctl start gitlab-runner.service
Failed to start gitlab-runner.service: Unit is not loaded properly: Bad message.
See system logs and ...
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What does "systemctl daemon-reload" do?
I have a service that stopped suddenly. I tried to restart that service but failed and was asked to run: systemctl daemon-reload.
What does it exactly do? What is a daemon-reload?
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systemd[1]: syslog-ng@default.service: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=7/BUS
I am using arch-linux. After running 24hr I am getting [email protected] core dump.
Log:
systemd[1]: [email protected]: Deactivated successfully.
systemd[1]: syslog-ng@default....
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Forking from a systemd service [duplicate]
I have a python program that runs as a systemd user service. From that program, I launch external commands via subprocess.Popen(cmd, close_fds=True, start_new_session=True). My intention is for these ...
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How to write systemd user service that runs only as part of a graphical session?
There are programs that I want to automatically start after a successful graphical desktop login (e.g. to Gnome or Xmonad) and stop when I logout. How can I change the ~/.config/systemd/user/synergys....
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Timed out waiting for device /dev/ttyNVT0
I want to make a physical remote serial port for my server that lets me use this port as a server serial console (this is for retro computer related hobby). I'm using a MikroTik router with its serial ...
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Reset systemd from deactivating state
I have stopped the D3 dababase via command line instead due to systemd have issues stopping the service.
When this happens, I have to restart the server each time which takes 30 minutes at least due ...
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