Questions tagged [socket-activation]
systemd socket activation...saves on server resources by listening with a socket instead of a full blown process. Then when a request is made the server can spin up the actual service.
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Simple systemd socket activation from HTTP request
I want to use systemd socket activation to start a service whenever an HTTP request is received on the listening socket. The incoming message is not important and can be discarded by systemd or the ...
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Why getting access denied when starting a port
I have a RHEL 8 Linux and using db2 when starting a services of db2 (hadr) we get in the diag an error message like below. The command to start the hadr service does not return an error but the remote ...
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How to get different UID using Dynamic Users with socket activation?
I'm following the Dynamic Users with systemd post and creating the waldo.socket and waldo.service.
Here is my waldo.socket.
[Socket]
ListenStream=2048
Accept=yes
And the corresponding [email protected]
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podman Error: wrong number of file descriptors for socket activation protocol (2 != 1)
I'm encountering what seems like a bug with the socket activation mechanism for podman, though I'm not sure if the issue is podman or systemd.
I created an alternative managed socket unit for the ...
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How to Activate a Mount of a Remote Share When Its Machine Connects?
How can one activate a mount of a remote SMB share when the remote machine connects?
This is more about discerning a local event triggered by the connection of a particular remote machine, than it is ...
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How to restrict the access/activation times for a service/socket with systemd?
I have a simple systemd service that is activated by system socket.
It's as simple as that (a little simplified):
$ systemctl cat example.socket
# /usr/lib/systemd/system/example.socket
[Unit]
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Can systemd be used as an inetd/xinetd replacement without being an init?
Can systemd be configured (in runtime or compile time) to serve as a simple process supervisor, not as /sbin/init?
If yes, are there tutorials and other documentation to follow to make customized non-...
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Systemd socket-based-activation service fails due to "start request repeated too quickly"
I have the following units:
test_socket_activation.socket
[Unit]
Description="************** MY TEST SOCKET ***************"
PartOf=test_socket_activation.service
[Socket]
ListenStream=127.0.0.1:...
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Manually stopped service is not properly stopped
I have a Server, that is supposed to activate if someone tries to connect to it. For this I created a systemd socket and service that builds a proxy for my server and starts it. Thanks to this ...
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How to specify the service template name when using socket activation with Accept=yes
I have multiple .socket files, they listen with Accept=yes. They should all use the same service template to process connections. By default systemd looks for a service template with the same name as ...
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Systemd socket activation stdin
I have to tranfer a legacy xinetd config to systemd. The requirement is to open a tcp port and listen to incoming transmissions. An application transfers one file per connection simply by netcating it ...
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Systemd socket activation: kill bash script when closing socket
Assuming a minimal example like in this question, except for another shell script.
[email protected]:
[Unit]
Description=Foo Service
After=network.target systemfoo.socket
Requires=systemfoo.socket
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How do I make systemd sockets close when service is stopped?
I'm currently trying to make a systemd service with two Fifo sockets. These sockets map to stdout and stdin of the application. I'm currently using the following configuration files.
foo.service
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Deactivate a systemd service after idle time
I want a service to start on demand rather than on boot. To do that I could use systemd socket activation (with the service and socket files).
But this is a resource limited server, so after some ...
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systemd "socket activation" vs xinetd
I use xinetd and it works for my purposes. However I recently discovered that systemd has something built in called "socket activation".
These two seem very similar, but systemd is "official" and ...
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