Questions tagged [systemd]
systemd is a collection of daemons, libraries and tools for system management. Ubuntu's Upstart system was replaced with systemd starting with Ubuntu 15.04.
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How to list all enabled services from systemctl?
How can I list all enabled services from systemctl?
I know running systemctl command by itself lists all services, but I would like to only get the enabled ones.
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Difference between systemctl and service commands
systemd gives us the systemctl commands suite which is mostly used to enable services to start at boot time. We can also start, stop, reload, restart and check status of services with the help of ...
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How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot?
How do I stop Apache2 from automatically starting on boot? I can't seem to find an option that disables the automatic start-up when I turn on the machine.
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How do I make my systemd service run via specific user and start on boot?
I just upgraded from Ubuntu server 14 to version 15. I had trouble getting my upstart script working after the upgrade, and read that systemd is the new default. I'm far from a linux expert, so please ...
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How do I override or configure systemd services?
Many sysv init scripts used a corresponding file in /etc/default to allow the administrator to configure it. Upstart jobs can be modified using .override files. How do I override or configure systemd ...
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Command to list services that start on startup?
Is there a command to list services that run on startup? I imagine it would involve parsing /etc/init.d/, and the various /etc/rc.* directories.
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How do I run a single command at startup using systemd?
I'd like to startup an Apache Spark cluster after boot using the following command:
sudo ./path/to/spark/sbin/start-all.sh
Then run this command when the system prepares to reboot/shutdown:
sudo ./...
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What is the difference between "systemctl start" and "systemctl enable"?
I installed MariaDB server to my machine. While setting up, I was met with the problem of whether I should have it enabled all the time, as the documentation I follow suggests with these steps:
sudo ...
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How to disable systemd-resolved in Ubuntu?
How can I disable systemd-resolved in Ubuntu 17.04?
Disabling it with systemctl disable didn't work, the service seems to be restarted (by Networkmanager?)
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systemctl failed to connect to bus - docker ubuntu:16.04 container
I'm trying to use the systemctl command in a ubuntu:16.04 docker container. I'm running the following command...
systemctl status ssh
However I'm getting the error...
Failed to connect to bus: No ...
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Why are some systemd services in the "masked" state?
When I run the command sudo systemctl list-unit-files (I think the sudo is optional), I get output which shows all services and their state.
Here is a snippet from my machine:
UNIT FILE ...
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Where is "journalctl" data stored?
When I issue journalctl I get a massive log of all system services, but where is all this information stored?
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What is the difference between "systemctl mask" and "systemctl disable"?
I want to improve the boot time of my Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 by disabling plymouth services when booting up. I've found two answers on how to do it on various websites namely:
# systemctl disable ...
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Systemd logs (`journalctl`) are too large and slow
My journalctl is keeping over 300 MB of logs as revealed by journalctl --disk-usage. Everything appears to be in order when I run journalctl --verify:
$ journalctl --disk-usage
Archived and active ...
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How can I flush the DNS on Ubuntu 17.04?
How can I flush the DNS on Ubuntu 17.04?
I seem to have a few DNS issues at the moment since upgrading to 17.04 from 16.10 and went to flush the DNS but I can't find how to.
Can anyone tell me ...
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Difference between systemctl init.d and service
I am new to linux and have been testing myself using an Amazon Lightsail instance (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS).
Going through the many guides I have came across, I see people using different commands to start/...
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Where are the systemd units/services located in Ubuntu?
I keep finding, while googling, that they're located at /usr/lib/systemd/system/ and /etc/systemd/system/. However, in my ubuntu, the first doesn't even exist, and the other has only a few services
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allowing user to run systemctl/systemd services without password
I want the default user, ubuntu to be able to run a specific service without being prompted for a password.
Specifically systemctl restart unicorn_my_app.service.
Have followed the instructions here ...
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How can I execute command on startup (rc.local alternative) on Ubuntu 16.10
I am setting up quota on my Linode server running Ubuntu 16.10, and I get the following error
Cannot stat() mounted device /dev/root: No such file or directory
So to fix this, I reached this ...
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Systemd service, Working Directory not change the directory
I created this script:
[Unit]
Description=test
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/someuser
ExecStart=/somescript.sh
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
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systemctl, how to unmask
root@gcomputer:~# systemctl status x11-common
● x11-common.service
Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
Active: inactive (dead)
I tried systemctl unmask x11-common and systemctl unmask x11-common....
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How do I modify "/sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled"
I use mongodb 3.0 and I find a warning:
MongoDB shell version: 3.0.0
connecting to: test
Server has startup warnings:
2015-03-13T16:28:29.405+0800 I CONTROL [initandlisten]
2015-03-13T16:28:29.406+...
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How do I exit the systemctl status command's output? [duplicate]
How does one go about getting the command line prompt back after using the systemctl status command? The command appears to succeed as it displays the status information of the requested service. ...
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How do I properly install a systemd timer and service?
I am attempting to create and install on Bionic a custom pair of systemd timer & service units for running a command periodically. I know that the files should be placed in /etc/systemd/system ...
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What is a masked service?
I would like to understand what a masked service is and how to unmask it if need be.
I have been trying to start PostgreSQL on Ubuntu 16.04-LTS using the command
systemctl start postgresql.service.
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How to activate hibernation in 16.04.1 ? (systemd)
I have a fresh install of 16.04.1 on a Lenovo T450s that always worked fine with respect to suspend/hibernate on Ubuntu (previous version I used was 14.04.5). Swap is comfortably bigger than RAM on ...
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How can I replace upstart with systemd?
Since Mark Shuttleworth decided to switch to sytemd in the future, I was wondering if I can install it on my Ubuntu now?
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How to resolve "service start-limit-hit"
I am trying to run a Node.js API as a service, but am running into problems.
When running systemctl status servicename.service I get the following error:
servicename.service - [Service description] ...
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Which to use - systemd OR supervisor?
I have a plugin for alerting on elasticsearch.
This is run manually everytime
python -m elastalert.elastalert --verbose --rule example_frequency.yaml
By this way have to dedicate a screen to ...
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Is Ubuntu 14.04 using systemd?
There was a lot of discussion about the init system for 14.04 before it was released, but I cannot find any site that explains the outcome finally.
So is Ubuntu 14.04 using systemd now?
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What is the use of systemd-journal-flush.service?
It slows my system boot time.
Can i disable it?
What will happen if i disable it on boot?
I am using Ubuntu version 18.04.
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Slow boot issue due to plymouth-quit-wait.service + ubuntu 18.04
This is freshly installed machine running as dual boot over Win 10.
For every reboot machine hangs for 15 secs as the plymouth service unable to start, due to some reasons.
ENv:-
Manufacturer:...
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How do I change the runlevel on systemd?
Pretty simple, I am trying to change the runlevel. Everything I find online points me to the file located in:
/etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf
Here I have tried changing the "DEFAULT_RUNLEVEL" to 3 or ...
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sudo service status includes bad;
$ sudo service cassandra status
● cassandra.service - LSB: distributed storage system for structured data
Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/cassandra; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (...
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How do I disable the systemd OOM process killer in Ubuntu 22.04?
Ubuntu 22.04 comes with the systemd-oomd service enabled by default, which has been "helpfully" killing my IDE and / or terminals whenever I try to compile an application using an abundance ...
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How to avoid horizontal scrolling in "systemctl status"?
In a long line in systemctl status it's necessary to scroll horizontally which makes it quite hard to copy the output. Is there a way to get linebreaks at the end of terminal (like nano -$ would do)?
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16.10 fail to resolve DNS
After upgrading my 16.04-installation to 16.10, I have trouble with DNS.
First I got problems a couple of times when connected to WiFi, while it worked on ethernet. Now it seems to work on WiFi also. ...
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systemd is hanging when I start or restart a service
I'm new to systemd after upgrading to 16.04 and I'm encountering a problem with starting and restarting services. When I run (for example)...
systemctl start djalbat.com
...it seems to work, however ...
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What is the systemctl equivalent
I am converting a package from .rpm to .deb using this tutorial. However, to test and debug the application I need to run it. The programs readme explains to run it as a service with:
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How do I add ~/bin to PATH for a systemd service?
I have a systemd service which calls a PHP script that creates a tmux session on boot.
Globally I have the most current tmux for the distro (V>=2.5).
The script's USER has a $HOME/bin/tmux of 2.0
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16.04 Command to list all services started on boot
I've installed mongodb v3.4. This starts up on boot.
So I'm wondering, how to I find out what is starting this up (and how to disable it from starting on boot)?
The following did not work:
How can ...
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Systemd fails to start openvpn in lxd managed 16.04 container
openvpn starts fine from the command line using the exact ExecStart= call from the systemd unit file:
/usr/sbin/openvpn --daemon ovpn-server --status /run/openvpn/server.status 10 --cd /etc/openvpn --...
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Why does an Ubuntu Server have graphical.target as the default systemd target?
I've been an Ubuntu user for a while, and at work we have many Ubuntu VM servers, all of which run Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to deploy our web applications, databases, and other tools.
I'm currently studying ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 systemd-udevd uses high CPU, conflict with wifi
I recently switched from Kubuntu 17.10 to Kubuntu 18.04 (fresh installed). The problem is the process systemd-udevd is constantly running and consuming 90-100% CPU load. After tinkering around with ...
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Is there a GUI tool for managing systemd on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)?
Is there a GUI tool for managing systemd on Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver)?
I want to be able to see the status of services and/or units (and/or whatever else systemd calls them).
Ideally, I could also ...
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systemd-journald crashed with SIGABRT in pthread_sigmask()
Fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04 on a new Lenovo x1c6, I'm getting this error sometimes after resuming from suspend.
I have no idea what it means, and search online leads to a bug report that doesn't ...
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systemd-resolve high cpu usage after update to 17.04
I have recently upgrade my Xubuntu from 16.10 to 17.04.
Every things works well except systemd-resolve. some times it makes cpu usage too high and I don't know why this issue has been happend.
And ...
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Rationale for switching from upstart to systemd?
The larger change that comes with Ubuntu 15.04 is the switch from upstart to systemd as the default for managing boot and system service startup.
Could anyone adequately explain to a non-technical ...
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After upgrade 14.04 to 16.04.1 Postgresql server does not start
Just upgraded my system from 14.04. LTS to 16.04.1 LTS, postgresql does not start on systemd:
/etc/init.d/postgresql start ...
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How to run tmux/screen with systemd > 230?
I run 16.04 and systemd now kills tmux when the user disconnects (summary of the change).
Is there a way to run tmux or screen (or any similar program) with systemd 230? I read all the heated ...
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