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Fake /etc/os-release for an application to make it think it runs on Ubuntu instead of Debian
I have to use a third party software which officially supports RHEL, SuSE (SLE[DS]) and a certain Ubuntu LTS release.
Unfortunately, I use Debian on all my systems.
If I run the installer script of ...
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Reorder of launching Systemd services
OS: Debian 11 Bullseye
Context:
The Zerotier application adds the zerotier-one.service system service and creates a virtual network interface (when it works).
The sshd server default listens to all ...
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Forcing Systemd to Re-Isolate a Target Unit
My goal is to programmatically re-run the graphical target unit using the systemctl command. While I'm aware that I can use sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target, this approach doesn't seem to work ...
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"systemd-tmpfiles --clean" problem
I want to cleanup a directory with systemd-tmpfiles.
On my ubuntu 22 server man tmpfiles.d shows the following example:
# Files created and modified, and directories accessed more than
# an hour ago ...
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Ubuntu systemd using 100% CPU when running manually with sudo only uses 20%
I wrote a program in Golang (it is compiled) and ran it using systemd as it needs to run long-term, auto reboot and run on startup, but it's pinning the cpu at 100%. Comparatively when running using ...
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Systemd on debian and ubuntu restarting services weekly, why?
I have several Debian 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 VMs. I have zabbix alerts setup to tell me when services restart, and 2 of these VMs are restarting all their services at midnight every week.
I have looked ...
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no alsa-sound in systemd-service (using screen)
I just set up a systemd.service in order to run cmus (a console-music-player) detached to a screen at startup.
i don't get sound, when starting via remote with no user logged in to the machine.
i do ...
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How is it possible to know whether a service is a user service or a system service?
Is it possible to query a service and know for example whether it was initiated from the lib/systemd/system or from /.config/systemd/user/?
I'm in the middle of writing a systemd service, and ...
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Why does a systemd unit file at `/usr/lib/systemd/system/` still works for Ubuntu?
I understand that systemd stores unit files at different locations for different versions of Linux. On RHEL, it's at /usr/lib/systemd/system/, whereas on Debian-based machines it's at /lib/systemd/...
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How can a log print to display while shutdown, reboot or startup?
As we all know, when we reboot, shutdown or startup a system, some message will be printed on the screen, here is a capture:
My system is Ubuntu 16.04, I know these log messages as above come from ...
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Systemd: start/stop service based on networking connectivity
I've been using a VPN heavily recently and would like openvpn to intuitively connect and disconnect based on whether I'm connected to Wi-Fi (or ethernet). Currently, I have a client.conf in /etc/...
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Trying to enable instantiated service via debian package install
I have an in-house config deb that I'm installing on a system. Among other things, I'd like to the package to enable a serial console, as described in http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/serial-console....
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Back to "initramfs" on Debian by systemd "shutdown to initramfs" feature
I need to go back to initramfs during shutdown in order to do a clean unmount of the loopback devices which host my linux installation.
To achieve that goal I have read a lot of documentation and ...
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postinst maintainer script stops systemd unit file from starting automatically on install
I'm creating a small Debian package to install systemd unit files, specifically *.service files.
My package looks like:
myservice
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|--debian
|- comapat
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Systemd Timer Confusion
I have a program running via Systemd and I'm trying to figure out how to start/stop it at certain times. It's a persistent program (transmission).
Currently I have a crontab with the following lines: ...
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