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systemctl is the main command to control and introspect the systemd Linux init system.

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Centos 7 HA firewall/router systemctl ospfd

I'm trying to create an HA firewall/router pair using keepalived (VRRP only), conntrackd, and OSFP under quagga, all installed as the standard Centos & packages. This is similar to the setup ...
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How to get whole log info?

To get the upload service's log info. sudo journalctl -l -u upload -- Logs begin at Thu 2018-01-18 22:38:54 EST, end at Fri 2018-04-13 23:44:37 EDT. -- Apr 13 23:36:50 localhost systemd[1]: Started ...
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start sevices after boot complete in linux mint

I am using linux mint 18.3 Sylvia. My system is taking a long time to boot, as I found a lot of services are running at start up. What I am asking is there any way I could start those services after ...
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How to keep Ubuntu systemctl process alive after disconnecting from shell?

I'm new to Ubuntu, and I want to run a (java maven) command which starts a web server embedded with my web application, on a remote Ubuntu server. I can run it with following bash command (typed ...
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Tomcat restarts even after explicit shutdown

I needed to set up an Ubuntu server based Tomcat server and I followed this well written post. Everything works great. Ran into an odd behavior though; I needed to stop the Tomcat server, so I used ...
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Running systemd units in user space in debian

I'm trying to setup a unit to run on Debian Stretch under a regular user. I connect to it over ssh. I first did this as root (username being the user in question): # loginctl enable-linger username ...
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Redis not starting with systemctl

I have installed redis on an ubuntu 16.04 machine and if I run /usr/local/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/cluster/7000/redis.conf it starts up and I can connect to it without issues. However I want to ...
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Permission denied to tor hidden service directory on CentOS after service restart

I have installed tor from EPEL on a fresh installed CentOS7 (minimal). After configuring a hidden service I check and validate that the service is up and running by browsing the URL generated in ...
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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 to enable systemd on Amazon Linux AMI

I started using Amazon Linux AMIs. It seems to have the /etc/systemd/system/ folder, but I am not able to use systemctl to start stop a service I added to the /etc/systemd/system/ folder. $ systemctl ...
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systemctl start trafficserver wait for start

I have a script that installs and sets up traffic server: yum install -y trafficserver systemctl start trafficserver traffic_line -s proxy.config.url_remap.remap_required -v 0 traffic_line -s proxy....
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'systemctl restart service' not working on CentOS 7

I have a custom service managed by an init script in /etc/init.d and, after upgrading to CentOS 7, with systemd, 'systemctl restart service' is not working correctly. I need to execute two times '...
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Show custom exit status in systemctl

I would like to show a custom message when someone runs systemctl status and the script has failed. Systemd seems to have a few built in. If I have a script that runs exit 200 systemctl status will ...
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systemd php script output only to systemctl status

i'm trying to run a php script 24/7 with systemd. the terminal output of the script is normally irrelevant so i set 'StandardOutput=0' and 'StandardError=0' to not mess logfiles with gigabytes of data....
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Behaviour of systemd services on reboot

On a Debian 8 I have deployed an application of mine that consists of several smaller apps and one of those smaller ones uses a HDF5 file. The problem with HDF5 files is that you have to close them. ...
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systemctl start works, but systemctl enable fails with realpath() error

I'm trying to set up a simple uwsgi service named project on Vagrant, Ubuntu 16.04. It should start a simple Flask app that Nginx can talk to. I can get the service to work when running systemctl ...
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how to get systemctl status on remote machine

when we run this on remote machine we get ssh $IP "systemctl disable iptables.service" and standard error is echo $? 0 but lets run it with error ( I add wrong syntax ) for example ssh $IP "...
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start firewalld.service VIA ssh

we have very strange problem when we configure and start the firewall on remote machine when we run VIA ssh the following command ( from bash script ) , we have redhat 7 machine systemctl start ...
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Systemd: Supervising process XXXX which is not our child. We'll most likely not notice when it exits

I've created a custom service file which looks like this: cat /etc/systemd/system/aaa.service [Unit] Description=aaa main application After=syslog.target network-online.target [Service] Type=...
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What is the difference between service and systemctl?

Maybe this is a trivial question, but it is not totally clear to me. On one of our servers we have some background processes running which were started with service and some others which were started ...
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Is it possible to extend the WantedBy systemd unit property?

I have a unit file and I want to modify some of the properties. I've been able to extend all the properties using the /etc/systemd/system/unitname.service.d/ directory but cannot get the WantedBy ...
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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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Disable maintenance mode from within recovery (Debian)

My rootserver's power supply died the day before and the hoster had to replace it. Since then, the server does not boot correctly anymore. Because of the sudden powerloss, it starts right in some kind ...
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How do I know if systemctl daemon-reload needs to be run

Is there a way to know the current running config is outdated? Is there a way to view the current running config and compare it to the file? It would be valuable for troubleshooting to know what the ...
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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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services in CentOS e.g. nginx, php-fpm doesn't include symbolic link configuration files

I have 2 services in CentOS 7 - nginx - php-fpm Those services have main configuration to include *.conf in certain directory. However, it didn't read the symbolic link file in that certain ...
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fail to enable mysqld service but after reboot the service is running on centos 7

After I installed, I run systemctl enable mysqld.service. Then, the output is: Failed to execute operation: Too many levels of symbolic links After this error, I reboot my service, and I check the ...
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Disabling MariaDb on Debian jessie doesn't work

I have MariaDb installed on Debian jessie. I need to remove it from automatic system startup. I tried recommended commands but they did not work: root@debian:/home/gameboy# systemctl disable mysql ...
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Mongodb doesn't start using systemctl

When I try to start the mongo service(systemctl start mongodb) I get this error in journalctl: Mar 21 15:36:18 redhat7 systemd[1]: Started High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database. ...
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CentOS service shows up twice in process list

I need to sync a directory between two servers and decided to create a service which listens to changes in a file and runs rsync. /usr/lib/systemd/system/mediasync.service [Unit] Description=...
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Main process exited, code=exited, status=7/NOTRUNNING

I have a node application, running via a systemd service on Ubuntu 16.04 However, after some time the service is getting restarted automatically. Here's what I get in the logs: Mar 17 14:35:10 ...
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CentOS 7: Fresh Install Firewalld doesn't work at all (Fatal Error: No IPv4 and IPv6 firewall)

I have the following problem. I just did an DVD CenOS 7 installation. After I boot into the system I normally login as the root user. From there I'm trying to configure Firewall on my server. As I'm ...
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Why my service restarted every 90 seconds?

I'm working with Ubuntu Server 16.04. Here's the .service file: [Unit] Description=NoDescpt [Service] ExecStart=/home/git/cmd/daphnei Restart=always KillSignal=SIGQUIT Type=notify NotifyAccess=all ...
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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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systemctl unable to start red5 init.d script on ubuntu 16.04

I tried to build and install systemd script for red5-server on ubuntu 16.04 server. I found the sample init.d script at https://gist.github.com/akarambir/a40163f163ae8b131be8 and downloaded I named ...
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With syslog-ng how can I reset an environment variable without losing log messages?

On this system, imagine that there is a program that detects whether or not it is day or night and sets and environment variable DAY. My environment variable DAY is picked up and used in this working ...
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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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Redis runs on OpenSuse 42.1, but throws many errors, How do I fix?

Installed Redis 3.2.4 on OpenSuse 42.1 with package manager. The machine has 16GB of memory. Did these steps to get running. (I would like to run as deamon, but havent changed the settings.) cp ...
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Failed to get D-Bus connection: connection refused [duplicate]

I'm having a hard issue on a server, and I get no clue of what is happening nor where to search to debug it. Here is my problem : When I run any command such as : systemctl start httpd.service or ...
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failed to get D-Bus connection: Operation not permitted

I'm trying to list services on my CentOS image running in Docker using systemctl list-units but I get this error message: Failed to get D-Bus connection: Operation not permitted Any suggestions ...
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Trouble creating PID file in systemd service script [duplicate]

I'm trying to get RipRight installed on Debian, for which there doesn't appear to be any pre-built package. I'm having difficulty getting a systemd script working to start/stop RipRight running as a ...
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Why does `systemctl start myservice` not fork this service?

I have written a systemd service. When I run systemctl start foo.service, the service starts and runs correctly, but systemctl does not return immediately to the shell. After a while it exits with ...
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can't stop mysql/mariadb with `systemctl stop`

EDIT it started working by itself. I can't see how to delete or flag this question. Mariadb is up and running on CentOS 7 $ ps aux | grep mysqld mysql 4249 0.0 9.0 841448 89576 pts/0 Sl ...
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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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Ubuntu 16 server, systemctl restart elasticsearch does nothing, and there's no log

On ubuntu 16 lts server system, a newly installed elasticsearch instance won't start up with systemctl restart elasticsearch (or with start). No logs are created, manually running /usr/share/...
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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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How to invoke sudo command such as systemctl via remote ssh

I'm trying to set up a deployment pipeline that involves invoking systemctl to start and stop services. I have a shell script on the server that invokes systemctl and my build server will be invoking ...
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How to allow a user to use journalctl to see user-specific systemd service logs?

I am running user-level services in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. For example, I have my test.service located at ~/.config/systemd/user/test.service. I was able to run the service by doing systemctl --user start ...
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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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What is the meaning of holdoff time over in systemd services?

I have installed Puppet Enterprise on CentOS 7. I can see that several Puppet services fail to start saying holdoff time over. What does this mean? Sep 03 20:50:16 l-pm1 systemd[1]: pe-puppetdb....
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