Questions tagged [systemctl]
systemctl is the main command to control and introspect the systemd Linux init system.
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Unable to restart a systemctl service remotely as a non root user
I have a systemd.socket named gunicorn.socket which I would like to restart after updating some code on a remote server.
I've followed the steps detailed in Allowing a non-root user to restart a ...
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`systemctl disable --now postgresql` doesn't stop the daemon
I'm running Debian Stretch and PostgreSQL 10 from apt.postgresql.org. When I do:
postgresql disable --now postgresql
the database server doesn't stop. It says:
Synchronizing state of postgresql....
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`systemctl show` outputs incorrect MemoryCurrent value
on one box, systemctl show get an incorrect value for unit memory usage:
$ systemctl show crond | grep MemoryCurrent
MemoryCurrent=18446744073709551615
18446744073709551615 == UINT64_MAX, this must ...
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Systemd service: Failed to issue method call: Unit service failed
I am trying to make a custom service in my VPS. However, it doesn't let me to run it. It says the following. I am not sure what is going on but when I run it on my Ubuntu laptop, it works properly. ...
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CentOS7 systemctl calling ExecStop on reboot after my procceses are already killed
I have a systemd script which is as follows:
[Unit]
Description=My sites
Before=shutdown.target reboot.target halt.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '/etc/xxx/mySites start'
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Ubuntu 16.04 Systemd not possible to use systemctl
I have a Ubuntu 16.04 server, since the last restart,
systemctl doesn't work anymore.
For example if I want to start the nginx, I get the following error:
root@SERVER:/# systemctl start nginx
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Failed to get properties: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out
Getting the below error while running systemctl status commands in my RHEL 7 linux server.
# systemctl status docker.service
Failed to get properties: Activation of org.freedesktop.systemd1 timed out
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Debian 10: sendmail service stops constantly
Whenever I start sendmail service, it reports
May 01 00:51:43 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport Agent...
May 01 00:51:43 su[6784]: (to smmsp) root on none
May ...
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systemctl --user cannot start docker containers on Ubuntu 20.04
I am in the process of migrating some services from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. In 18.04 I run these services under a non-root user. All these services start a docker container, and they're working just ...
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How does SystemMaxUse on journalctl work?
I'm using journalctl for system logging. I want to have a log file to check what is happening with the process I'm running at anytime.
So I'm configuring the journald.conf file like this:
[Journal]
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systemd service in pacemaker for high availability
I came to know about the pacemaker for high availability.
I have one simple service running on linux VM.
I have started that using systemctl start <service name> command. I want to make this ...
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Failed to get properties: No such interface ''
i try to start my new service :
/etc/systemd/system/myservice.service
[Unit]
Description=My Desc...
After=network.target
[Service]
User=webXX
Group=clientXX
ExecStart=/var/www/xxx/xxx/xxx/golang-...
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How to run clamd by systemd as daemon on Centos 7
# rpm -q centos-release
centos-release-7-5.1804.el7.centos.2.x86_64
# rpm -qa clam
clamav-filesystem-0.100.0-2.el7.noarch
clamav-data-0.100.0-2.el7.noarch
clamav-lib-0.100.0-2.el7.x86_64
clamav-...
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vsftpd failing to start
I have tried solutions presented in the following posts:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/364529/centos-vsftpd-not-starting/364555
https://superuser.com/questions/987912/why-my-vsftp-service-...
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How can I troubleshoot a systemctl maintained daemon, on Oracle Linux 7, when it dies immediately after being spawned?
I'm trying to run jenkins, via systemctl, and it keeps dying immediately after being started. There is nothing in the "systemctl status" nor in "journalctl". Jenkins logs also show nothing.
I've ...
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syslog-ng working as foreground process but not as daemon
I'm working to implement syslog-ng OSE in my environment. Eventually I'd like to setup a central logging server, but in order to get my feet wet, I'm starting with a simple configuration. I've ...
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CentOS 7: Nginx systemctl hangs on start, why?
I compiled nginx with pagespeed and made the nginx.service file in /usr/lib/systemd/system/nginx.service but when i try to do systemctl start nginx it just hangs, nginx does start but systemctl hangs.
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Support Multiple Service Dependencies in Requires Directive in RedHat 8.9
Thank You for looking into the question.
I have a Systemd service lets call it main-application.service which needs service testA.service and testB.service started before start of itself.
Following is ...
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Issue with sshd logfile using fail2ban on minimal Ubuntu server 22.04
I am working on trying to get fail2ban set up and enabled for sshd on my VPS with Ionos. I am using a minimal Ubuntu 22.04 server install.
fail2ban has installed fine, but getting it to run seems a ...
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OpenVPN restart systemd service if TLS error occured
I have a systemctl service which starts openvpn command with given config file.
openvpn *filename*
But if somebody uses same certificate to open VPN from another device - service logs TLS errors and ...
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systemd-nspawn can't auto login
I'm trying to config auto login for my nspawn container and I created /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/autologin.conf
and inside of that I wrote this config:
[Service]
ExecStart=
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What is the best process to install a node based service/daemon/unit on Debian 11?
In this post:
[Other serverfault post][1]
[1]: https://serverfault.com/questions/1018676/how-to-configure-systemd-service-unit-to-start-node-app-with-npm-start-instead
I found that it's possible to ...
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systemd fails to restart even after calling reset-failed
We have a need for restarting a service frequently in certain special scenarios.
So when it fails with start-limit, the suggested solution is to call "reset-failed".
What we found is that, ...
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`bad-setting (Reason: Unit nftables.service has a bad unit file...` when add `/etc/systemd/system` conf to nftables
System is debian 10 with nftables.
I plan to make nftalbes auto restart when failed,script as below:
cat << EOF >> /etc/systemd/system/nftables.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
Restart=on-...
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How to troubleshoot a systemd timer on Ubuntu 16.04 that won't re-schedule every minute as expected?
I have an existing systemctl target that was originally (by default installation) scheduled to run everyday, almost continuosly with just a pause of 30 seconds between the end and beginning of each ...
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Mongo Authentication when mongod started as a service
System specs:
OS: Debian 10
Mongo Shell: v4.4.4
Mongod: v4.4.4
I successfully created a user administrator for MongoDB with the privileges below (output from show users in Mongo Shell).
{
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Warning: The unit file, source configuration file or drop-ins of X changed on disk. Run 'systemctl daemon-reload' to reload units
I am running Debian 10.4 on kernel 4.19.66+.
It seems that my unit files are changing on their own (It sounds crazy, I know), with no interaction from me, the only user of the system.
I found this ...
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Systemd unit not found on start but exists on status
A service exists and succesfully found via status command
>sudo systemd status my-service
● my-service.service - My service description
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/my-service.service;...
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Postgresql: can't start service database system was shut down
I install Postgresql using
sudo apt install postgresql postgresql-contrib
then I run
sudo systemctl restart postgresql
then I run
sudo systemctl status postgresql
It says
Active: active (exited) ...
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View systemctl service process
I have a minecraft server running as a system service and wish to check up on it. I know I can do systemctl status minecraft.service but that doesn't let me see the java process's output and/or input ...
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pre launching systemd user processes
I've configs in place to start resque-first.target, then resque-metro.target and finally resque-prisma.target, but for some reason they all start at the same time
systemctl --user cat resque-worker....
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How does systemctl variable escaping work in a shell?
I want do a batch job with systemctl, something like:
systemctl status v2ray-haproxy@{1..5}
That's fine. But when i change 5 to a variable：
n=5;systemctl status v2ray-haproxy@{1..$n}
It's not ...
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Maldet having problems with systemctl
Trying to start maldet daemon. Following shows up:
"Job for maldet.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration."
I have configured the 'maldetect/...
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autossh working fine from terminal, bot causing permission denied from systemctl
I'm trying to integrate autossh on a raspberry pi.
if I launch the command by itself
autossh -o "ServerAliveInterval 10" -o "ServerAliveCountMax 3" -N -R 22002:localhost:22 user@myserver
everything ...
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Preview or debug (dry-run or trace) systemctl actions (start, stop, restart, etc.)
Without having to manually trace dependencies, e.g. with systemctl show or systemctl cat, and manually inspect the state of the system with systemctl status and systemctl list-units, is there a way to ...
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Failed to start open network operating system using command systemctl
i follow the admin guide to install onos and when i issue the following command:
sudo systemctl status onos.service
it output a error message that show failed to start open network operating system. ...
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How to run a docker image as a systemctl service?
I'm following the instructions here, using 'docker run'.
I came up with the following. The container starts, and then stops. What am I missing? For that matter, systemctl status shows me the tail of ...
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systemd killing process on start after timeout period
I got a daemon in centos 7 that I'm trying to setup for execution on boot via systemd. The daemon is a binary (c source) that does a fork and change of id/group.
The trouble I'm having is systemd ...
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How to pass arguments to systemd-nspawn via systemctl?
I am testing systemd-nspawn and launch a base system testcont (previously created with debootstrap) either via
# systemd-nspawn -bD testcont --network-bridge=br1
or
# systemctl start systemd-...
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dovecot, postfix, systemctl start never completes, mystery dependency
I've installed Xubuntu 15.04 and right away I was forced to dive right into the gritty details of systemd, systemctl, systemd-analyze. Right out of the box, postfix hangs on apt-get on the configuring ...
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Tomcat9 used environments variables on server.xml
I try to insert environments var on conf/server.xml file
I follow the tomcat documentation : https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/api/org/apache/tomcat/util/digester/EnvironmentPropertySource.html
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Linux service constantly restarting
I have a service file mmctrl.service with the following contents
[Unit]
Description=MosquitoMax Controller Service
After=network.target
[Service]
User=mm
Group=mm
WorkingDirectory=/home/mm/
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On Ubuntu, systemctl (show|status) with wildcards does not work with inactive(dead) processes even with "--all" flag
Although this https://serverfault.com/a/915634/1060236 suggests all services should be listed, when I run:
sudo systemctl status "prefix.*" --all or sudo systemctl show "prefix.*" -...
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How can I start a disabled service@ in Fedora 38?
I have 2 openvpn-client@ services (openvpn-client@df and openvpn-client@sp) configured in my machine. I don't want them automatically started at boot. But I want to be able to manually start them ...
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Systemd sequencial stop of template unit instances
I have a template unit that that I have to created in order to start/stop some services running an a given port. something like [email protected], [email protected].
[Unit]
After=network.target
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Ignore ExecStartPre sleep for ad-hoc systemctl starts
I have a PDF Rendering custom application, I have successfully created a systemctl service for it. I have successfully configured the ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30 to delay the start by 30 seconds.
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Environment Variable set in systemd service file not set
I have the problem than when I start my service a environment variable I have set in the service file is not set.
The Service file is as follows
[Unit]
Description=<DESCRPITON>
After=podman....
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StartExecPost calling the service itself
I have a service defined as bellow:
Unit]
Description=My Service
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/myservice
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure
ExecStartPost=/usr/local/bin/...
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SELinux policys keeping Tomcat from starting
On a newly built Oracle Linux 8 server i added a drive and file system, then put put Apache Tomcat on that file system via the tarball. Now when starting Tomcat via a services file, I get an error ...
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Trouble starting by service: Linux 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 23 09:04:02 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Linux XXXXXXXX 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Mar 23 09:04:02 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
cat -vetn rc.service
1 [Unit]$
2 Description=Script Daemon$
3 $
4 ...
