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nginx timeout when started via systemd unit
I was having a similar problem getting nginx to start on ChromeOS. The fix was nearly the same though, in /etc/init.d/nginx I changed PID=/run/nginx.pid to PID=/run/nginx/nginx.pid.
systemctl start ...
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systemd ignores /etc/hostname at startup
Answering my own question. As @Marcus-Müller pointed out, systemd is being fired off initrd, or rather initramfs and /etc/ isn't mounted yet.
That's what's happening in our case.
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How to check systemd hardware watchdog state
I wondered the same thing and browsing for a similar issue I came up with the following:
sudo strace -t -e ioctl -p1 | grep WDIOC_KEEPALIVE
At half the timeout interval, you should see something ...
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How systemd service restart if another systemd service restart?
Wrong layer.
[ipv4]
dhcp-send-hostname=false
in your profile on /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ will stop networkmanager from sending a dhcp hostname.
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How to restart systemd service if it is taking too long to run?
Use the RuntimeMaxSec directive. You cannot use a watchdog because buggy program will need to be modified.
From man systemd.service:
RuntimeMaxSec=
Configures a maximum time for the service to run. ...
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daemon reload resets cgroup.subtree_control of cgroups
Figured it out.
Quote from Where are systemd's configurations for cgroups?
As I read it, if no units have a value set for CPUShares and CPUAccounting is not explicitly enabled anywhere (and ...
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Systemd service timer not working
man systemd.timer says:
Note that in case the unit to activate is already active at the time the timer elapses it is not restarted, but simply left running. There is no concept of spawning new ...
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How systemd service restart if another systemd service restart?
b.service needs two relationships with systemd-hostnamed.service:
PartOf=systemd-hostnamed.service will cause b.service to stop when systemd-hostnamed.service is stopped.
WantedBy=systemd-hostnamed....
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What is parsing/applying /etc/fstab entries
The kernel usually mounts the root filesystem at the very end of the boot sequence.
It is usually mounted readonly and irrespective of whatever mount option set as part of the /etc/fstab file.
Control ...
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Debian Bookworm, systemd, and how EXT4 quota works?
You don't need quota files with ext4, since the quota is handled internally and atomically with ext4 transactions, so the quota files shouldn't get out of sync with the actual files owned by each user/...
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How to Make a Systemd Private Network Namespace Accessable
So, first off: A network application that binds to 0.0.0.0 and is not configurable would count as fatally bugged in my book, and if you have any leverage, that would be something the developer would ...
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Why am I missing $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS after logging in via SSH and trying to set up user scope service
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS were not being set when logging in via SSH because I had turned off PAM system in the host's SSH server configuration.
sudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd.config
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How to remove DNS options from systemd-resolve
You need to set the appropiate nameservers using the DNS= setting on /etc/systemd/resolved.conf
That resolv.conf is entirely managed by resolved and you should not edit it.
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Restart SystemD service when Memory Usage in More than 100MB
I have commented out the following lines and the problem is solved.
PartOf=graphical-session.target
BindsTo=graphical-session.target
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Systemd: provide password noninteractively to homectl
man homectl ... look for --identity ... it doesn't accept passwords from stdin, but does accept the hash from a json file.
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Reorder of launching Systemd services
Any workaround will keep breaking because this is the incorrect layer to solve the problem. It is not on systemd or zerotier.. it is sshd that needs to allow setting the IP_FREEBIND socket option to ...
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systemctl list all possible (including disabled) services
A cool TUI for systemctl:
joehillen/sysz: An fzf terminal UI for systemctl
A fzf terminal UI for systemctl
Installation:
wget -O ~/.bin/sysz https://github.com/joehillen/sysz/releases/latest/download/...
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What are systemd *.device units actually waiting for?
In response to my question on systemd mailing lists I got this response:
Mantas Mikulėnas
.device units wait for udev to broadcast the uevent about that device
being added, which happens after udev ...
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How can I list all of the systemd targets?
You may use:
systemctl list-unit-files --type target --all
list-unit-files: list unit files
--type target: show only target units
--all: list all unit files, regardless of their state
Also to list ...
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How to make multiple systemd services start/stop as a group?
Try sudo systemctl start app*
This way you can start all services in one go, hope this works ..
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Howto change linux hostname on mounted (copied) drive
@Tom Yan: Thanks for the link.
I have searched for my hostname in config files on my system and found some which are not covered by the 'hostname' command.
The main files are /etc/hostname and /etc/...
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Reorder of launching Systemd services
With your configuration, sshd.service will certainly start only after zerotier-one.service starts. But that is not enough. The sshd.service would need to wait until Zerotier has actually connected ...
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Why isn't my systemd service automatically starting?
I had the same issue recently when working on a Yocto project.
I had well specified in my Yocto recipe the following lines:
SYSTEMD_SERVICE:${PN} = "test.service"
SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE:${PN} = ...
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How to add a static IP address to a network interface using systemd.networkd, if the filesystem is read-only?
It turns out there is a simple answer to this: you can place networkd configuration files in /run/systemd/network, which is writeable even on an otherwise read-only filesystem.
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Running a systemd service at boot with ALSA
First of all, it is expected that you can't "hold" / "delay" a service start with After=sound.target since sound.target does not exist in the "bootup unit tree".
systemd (...
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Kubuntu 20.04 Shutdown/Reboot Hangs At "Waiting for process: crond"
If the problem is faced after installing "Free Download Manager", then you just got infected with Malware.
https://securelist.com/backdoored-free-download-manager-linux-malware/110465/
That ...
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Running a systemd service at boot with ALSA
I think your dependency on sound.target is correct (although I would also add Requires=sound.target, since it does require sound support). I'm not entirely sure what the problem is here -- maybe some ...
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How can I prevent normal users from being able to look up other logged-in users?
If you create a chroot environment for your users, then you'll have complete control over the available commands.
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systemd-mount and automatic deletion of mount point on USB removal
According source systemd.mount-tool --bind-device only add After= and BindsTo= rows in generated unit file (/run/systemd/transient/*.{automount,mount})
The mountpoint dirs are not autoremove(
looks ...
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systemd keeps restarting my daemon
Your Type= and ExecStart= definitions don't match.
You've set Type=Simple, which expects a program that does not fork into the background, yet you use the -D argument which forks the process into the ...
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How to preset service instances with systemd
Based on empirical evidence in the comments (thanks @TomYan), later systemd versions, like 254.1 do work as I expected.
Also the systemd.preset manpage for 219 that comes with my systemd does not ...
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Enabled nfs service fails to start
To cleanup this old post.
The Jessie systemd service had a known bug, but this is now fixed.
The only thing you have to do under Stretch is install nfs-kernel-server - this now seems to have a proper ...
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systemd-networkd-wait-online failure
systemd-networkd-wait-online is looking up configurations of the interfaces of systemd-networkd. so in this case instead of modifying the service file itself one can set an RequiredForOnline or ...
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How can I get colored output of `systemd` commands run with `watch` inside xterm?
Thanks to the comment from @muru, I finally got colored output.
I needed this change:
alias Xterm='SYSTEMD_COLORS=1 xterm -geometry 132x60 -e '
🗒 For Wayland i also needed -rv before the -e option ...
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Script not working fully under systemd
Jobs run through cron, or startup scripts, or systemd scripts, aren't run in the same runtime environment that you have on your desktop. Startup scripts are run as root. None of your PATH changes, or ...
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How to conditionally execute two different ExecStart commands in one systemd unit file?
Conditions only apply to the whole unit, not to individual job specifications inside it.
So to conditionally execute some of the jobs, those job specifications should do the checking themself before ...
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Does systemd "After=" check if services in it are started without failures before starting the service?
You should view After=x as meaning:
Start doing this job after you have finished doing job "x".
It doesn't instruct anything with respect to the result of doing job "x", it only ...
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How to avoid systemd periodic realtime timer running at boot
Timer units should have WantedBy=timer.target in their [Install] section.
If you want it to start at a specific point in the boot sequence you should add derictives like Before= and/or After= etc ...
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Redirect logs from file to Systemd journal
If you have no way to change the output filename in the app, maybe you could forced create /opt/myprogram/logs.txt as a symlink to /dev/stdout in the service unit, either as a prestart or poststart ...
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dash maximum variable length under systemd
(due to lack of rep)
"sh: printf: I/O error" indicates the script is run using sh and not dash by systemd, maybe that's where the diff comes into play?
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do not run systemd service when another service ran sucessfully
Try to make use of the OnFailure= in health check to activate rollback when it fails, and SuccessAction=reboot in rollback to automatically reboot the system after your "rollback" operation ...
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How do I change mac before network service starts
You could try:
Make use of ConditionPathExists= or ConditionPathExistsGlob= in your service file, so it is skipped when the wifi adapter is not plugged into the usb port.
Make use of a *.path unit, ...
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Run systemd timer even if process is still running
if a systemd timer runs OnCalendar=hourly is there any way to tell it to run EVERY TIME regardless what happened in the previous runs (so to be sure backups will in face run and won't unexpectedly ...
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Unit templates and non-template destination units
AFAIK, you should not be able to enable template units, only instance units should be able to be enabled.
Because the template itself is not a real unit that can be started on it's self.
You could ...
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systemd: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary
My guess is that there is some error in the "GNOME Session Manager (session: gnome)" service unit.
Because no sane systemd-unit is named "UNIT" 😉
Most likely a typo in there...
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How to follow systemd journald logs for template units that come and go (i.e. socket-activated units)?
You could try:
watch journalctl -eu 'my-service@*'
If you need different updates as "every 2s" you can use the -n option of watch.
The e option will always make the last entries visible for ...
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systemd unit indirect status
From man systemd.special:
graphical.target
A special target unit for setting up a graphical login screen.
This pulls in multi-user.target.
Units that are needed for graphical ...
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Systemd path PathExists= doesn't work if tracked file is deleted inside Unit=?
Try this in your restart.service:
[Unit]
Description=
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStartPre=echo PREPARING TO RESTART...
ExecStart=/bin/rm -f /home/ubuntu/restart
In other words dont use the ...
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Launch a node server then, when active, a web browser in systemd (Wayland)
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /opt/server/main.js 2>&1 | logger
You can't use shell syntax here, eg. the 2>&1 | logger part is not allowed.
(It's actually not needed either as the stdout and ...
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Systemd will not enable this unit file, states "Invalid cross-device link" on the same file system
Wants=udev.target
You should change the above line, for valid values you probably are interested in see: man systemd.special
Failed to enable unit: File klippy: Invalid cross-device link
This is ...
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