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What's the difference between /usr/lib/systemd/system and /etc/systemd/system?
Before all the unit files were in /etc/systemd/system/ but now some are showing up in /usr/lib/systemd/system (<- on CentOS, or /lib/systemd/system <- on Debian/Ubuntu), what is the difference ...
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Systemd service - what is `multi-user.target`
I have come across a .service that contains the following:
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
The original .service file can be found here.
What is the the meaning of multi-user.target?
I am on ...
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How to disable `apt-daily.service` on Ubuntu cloud VM image?
The Ubuntu 16.04 server VM image apparently starts the "apt-daily.service" every
12 hours or so; this service performs various APT-related tasks like refreshing
the list of available packages, ...
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How to configure systemd-resolved for mdns multicast dns on local network?
Ubuntu 18
I've done a ton of research and am close to pulling this picture together but can't quite understand:
How can I configure systemd-resolved for mdns?
My goal specifically:
to bring up a ...
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How can I make an executable run as a service?
On Ubuntu 18.04, I can start or stop some service by
sudo service cron start/stop
I can list some services by
service --status-all
The output matches the files under /etc/init.d/.
I heard there ...
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How to create a virtual systemd service to stop/start several instances together?
I plan to host several instances of the same web app for customers using systemd. I would like to be able to stop and start each customer instance using systemd, as well as treating the whole ...
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How to automatically create a runtime folder with a systemd service or tmpfiles.d?
I'm trying to create a runtime folder at /run/gunicorn for some Gunicorn socket / PID files, which are for a Django application. I can get everything working if I manually create directories. However, ...
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Common location for systemd unit files on Ubuntu and RHEL
I would like to create a scripted install for a list of Systemd services. This installation should support both Ubuntu (starting with version 16.04) and RHEL/CentOS (starting with version 7.2)
I read ...
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unlock login gnome-keyring on i3wm autologin
Problem
This question seems to have been asked a billion times, but I'm still completely unable to unlock my login keyring automatically.
Background
I automatically login, chvt and startx along ...
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Automatically enable systemd services installed using deb?
I'm building a bunch of services to install on my own (automatically created) servers. I'm migrating from upstart on Ubuntu 14.04, where services are enabled by default (we have to do extra work if we ...
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Systemd service does not start (WantedBy=multi-user.target)
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3
$ \cat /home/nikhil/.config/systemd/user/Festival.service
[Unit]
Description=Festival Service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/festival --server
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=10
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Boot stopped at "Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes" - headless server... no X
It's 8:27am. I haven't slept. I am exhausted. So I'm leaving this here and going to bed. I'll check it after. Pardon me if I'm slightly south of coherent.
Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS server running on a VPS. ...
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How to disable fingerprint authentication when laptop lid is closed?
I recently managed to make fingerprint authentication work on my laptop, thanks to the Goodix Linux Development discord community and the github users Infinytum and Michael Teuscher on the driver/...
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ThinkPad P50 & Ubuntu 22.04: cannot wake up at all, why?
I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 on the ThinkPad P50 and cannot wake up the machine after suspend any more. Just after installation there was some offering for the firmware update that I did, but now ...
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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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