Questions tagged [systemctl]
systemctl is the main command to control and introspect the systemd Linux init system.
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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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How can I cause systemd to wait starting a unit until a certain condition is fullfilled
I'm still struggling to understand boot sequence dependency configuration in systemd unit files. I've read the manual (systemd.unit).
I tried to add dependencies using the After= and Requires= lines ...
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After= option not working in systemd service file
I have two shell scripts name first.sh and second.sh. The contents of first.sh and second.sh are given below:
>>first.sh
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
echo The current time ...
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amazon-cloudwatch-agent shuts down on every application reload
I have a Tomcat app on Elastic Beanstalk, and I want to send logs to Cloudwatch Logs. To that end, I set up log4j to write to file, and in .ebextension, amazon-cloudwatch-agent is installed and run.
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systemd service reports "unknown port"
On a CentOS 7 server,I'm creating a new systemd service from scratch for a new service, prometheus-slurm-exporter. (It's an application that exports data from the SLURM scheduler on an HPC cluster.) ...
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Cannot kill - nginx: master process nginx -g daemon off
I am setting up both Nginx and OpenRusty on my Ubuntu , one thing confuses me is , even after I quit OpenRusty and stop Nginx , I can still observe a nginx running , seems like this process cannot ...
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Display service output on console using systemctl
I have following service file -
[Unit]
Description=Open VPN Agent
After=syslog.target
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
TTYPath=/dev/pts/0
KillMode=process
PIDFile=/opt/openVPN/pids/...
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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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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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How do you kill all instances of a systemd service?
I want to kill all instances of a systemd service.
This works fine: sudo systemctl stop 'custom-service@*'
but it is slow since it runs my custom ExecStop which does extra work to safely shut down the ...
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Cannot stop screen started with systemctl start [closed]
On ubuntu server 20.04
I created a service definition for a Minecraft server within a screen session like that
[Unit]
Description=Minecraft Server
After=network.target
[Service]
User=minecraft
Nice=...
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How to use SIGHUP for reloading services?
I've installed Hachicorp Vault and did setup the TLS configuration. My goal now is to have the vault.service to do an automatic reload if the TLS certificates were renewed.
The official documentation ...
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Allow a user to restart a service
I am trying to restart a service without being root. Here is the code snippet where the command being used
template {
source = "{{vault_template_dir}}/agent.crt.tpl"
destination = &...
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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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simple systemd service and socket failing
I had a service I was trying to run this way but it was slightly a large python program. I took a step back and built a dead simple python program to see if I can get it to run. It fails when I try ...
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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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systemd failing enable with "service is transient or generated". What's wrong with this configuration?
In General
I've been scouring the web looking for actually helpful documentation about systemd and this error, but the majority of it has been troubleshooting niche cases or goes into such extreme ...
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Redhat 7.3 Sybase 16 (edge) issue with systemctl auto startup process
After installing Sybase 16 (Edge) and successfully upgrading a 15.7 instance to Edge, and then trying to add the sybase service with systemctl so that sybase starts up automatically when the Redhat 7 ...
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Can't restart MySQL, Start request repeated too quickly
I can't restart my MySQL server with systemctl or any other ways.
On journalectl it says
mysql.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
mysql.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'
Here the ...
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How can I debug firewalld on CentOS 7 stopping running unexpectedly?
I have a brand new CentOS 7 server and am just performing the initial setup.
I have started firewalld with
sudo systemctl enable firewalld
sudo systemctl start firewalld
both commands appeared to run ...
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systemctl and journalctl can't find charon-system.service
If I run with grep, service is present in output
[root@maincore ~]# systemctl status --all | grep charon
│ │ └─135060 grep --color=auto charon
│ └─127087 /usr/sbin/charon-systemd
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clamav-daemon start condition failed, /var/lib/clamav/daily.{c[vl]d,inc} was not met
After installing Modoboa(Open Source Mail Hosting), I Tried to start clamav-daemon, but i faced start condition failed.
systemctl status clamav-daemon.service
clamav-daemon.service - Clam ...
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Docker systemctl Failed to get D-Bus connection bug
When I execute any systemctl command inside a CentOS 7 container I get the Failed to get D-Bus connection: Operation not permitted error message. The container is started with docker container run --...
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How to Set Up Time Synchronization with NTP on Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
After updating the base system with the latest available packages:
apt-get update -y
and
root@localhost:~# timedatectl
Local time: Wed 2021-01-06 08:03:11 UTC
Universal time:...
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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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Cannot get redis 5 to run with systemctl
Installed Redis 5 (have Redis 3 working on server)
Modified various configurations in /etc/opt/rh/rh-redis5/redis.conf as necessary including setting supervised to "systemd" and setting ...
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How to install gmod server as system service on Ubuntu?
I have a GMod server on Ubuntu 18.04, and it runs fine when I run it via ./run_gmod.sh (as the "steam" user, who owns the folder/files), whose contents are
#!/bin/sh
/datadrive/srcds/gmod/...
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Cron jobs stopped working
I have an issue almost identical to what is here: Cron jobs not working anymore
However I can't seem to find any memory-related problems as per the accepted answer, so I thought I should open a new ...
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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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gammu 1.42, gammu-smsd service error, LD_LIBRARY_PATH not found
I'm trying install Gammu 1.42 to serve my SMS gateway on Centos 8.
make, make test, make install works fine.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH configured in /etc/profile as:
......
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/...
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Enabling systemctl service does not load at boot
I have set up gunicorn to server two Django sites, as per this setup. This works well. If I run:
# systemctl start gunicorn@my_website.service
Then all is well and my website is being served as ...
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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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listing Systemd target unit's dependencies in a machine readable format
I have a complex systemd target unit with a number of dependency units. I would like to list and parse the status of these without falling back to a loop.
the 'list-dependencies' sub-command only ...
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Cannot start services on CentOS 7
Suddenly, I cannot start services on my VPS(CentOS 7). For example,
service httpd start
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start httpd.service
Authorization not available. Check if polkit service is ...
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Prevent to use systemctl poweroff and systemctl reboot for non-root users in CentOS
I have CentOS 7 server and there is one non-root level user named user1. That user1 only has the permissions to start, stop, enable and disable for Zabbix Services (allow these service in sudoers file)...
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On Fexora Server 32, new cron jobs aren't showing up with systemctl list-timers --all
I've just brought a new server online and configured it the way the old one was regarding cron, but the jobs aren't running. So, I went through the configuration carefully and checked that the current ...
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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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Fedora28 - firewalld stopped working as it unable to communicate with ABRT daemon
We are currently running a Fedora 28 server. Due to the server being restarting multiple times, FirewallD has stopped working. Based on the error messages presented when we run the command systemctl ...
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Spring Boot and stop by systemctl not working
My application uses Spring Boot 2.3.1.RELEASE, it is an executable jar that uses an Embedded Tomcat and is listening on port 10605.
I deployed on CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core).
I took the ...
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systemctl service + how to configure service for boot priority
we have rhel 7.2 machine
server have the following service
[root@server1 system]# more rc_build_infra.service
[Unit]
Description=infra Manager Server
Requires=network.target remote-fs.target
After=...
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systemctl enable seems to succeed, but unit not intalled as a want per [Install] WantedBy
Pretty new to systemd, so likely (and hopefully) missing something trivial. Thanks in advance.
I'm trying to enable a service (bees btrfs dedup; unit file below), but the enable/[Install] doesn't ...
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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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Systemctl cannot run Script command on openvpn
It is weird that the /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] is a simple task:
[Unit]
Description=OpenVPN Robust And Highly Flexible Tunneling Application On %I
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=...
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Cannot access VM after running "systemctl isolate rescue.target"
I have a VM running on VMWare. OS is RHEL 7.
I ran the following command and the ssh session also terminated.
systemctl isolate rescue.target
Now I cannot access the server. Even ping doesn't work.
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mariadb.service start stuck at activating
I just installed the mariadb in my ubuntu 19.10 by sudo apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client after when I am trying to start the server by sudo systemctl start mariadb.service shell get freeze I ...
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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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systemctl enable sidekiq: Failed to issue method call: Access denied
I am trying to implement Sidekiq using Systemd on Ubuntu 16.
I am logged in as deployer. I navigated to the /lib/systemd/system directory and wanted there to create a file: nano sidekiq.service.
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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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Why is Docker services keep running without my consent
These docker services keep running without my consent, how to stop them:
/usr/bin/docker-containerd-current
/usr/bin/dockerd-current
I don't want to uninstall Docker, just want to stop services to ...
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how changing openvpn default port on centos7
I am trying to change Openvpn default port from 1194 to 8080
I change port 1194 to port 8080 on server.conf at server and change the client config file like that
remote 15.15.15.15 8080
then I ...