systemctl is the main command to control and introspect the systemd Linux init system.
systemd is a system and service manager in Linux. More information about switches and arguments can be found here.
Questions tagged [systemctl]
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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/srcds_run -game garrysmod -console -norestart -strictportbind…
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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; static; vendor preset: disabled)
Active:…
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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 gives the status in form of a (coloured, not…
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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 running or see debug message for more…
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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) since ... 1s ago
So it looks like the restart…
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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 appear to have any effect?.
I run the following,…
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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 new commands. Is there any way to access the…
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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.target
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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 working now, and error:
Invalid unit name…
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systemctl service can't restart on reboot
I have created a service for systemctl which works perfectly but whenever I reboot the server it can't auto-restart itself.
The code for the service is:
[Unit]
Description=Service…
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Ubuntu service is showing running even after the process is killed
I have created a service like below:-
Description=Java Service
[Service]
User=nobody
# The configuration file application.properties should be here:
WorkingDirectory=/home/ubuntu/pear
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar…
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Ubuntu Service not starting
I have a chatbot application that should run as a service with systemctl. Whenever I try to start the chatbot service I’m getting error and the service fails.
If I start the chatbot directly from the terminal it works fine. But not when I start it…
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How to fix error in catalina.out "libjli.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
I was getting this error when running systemctl restart tomcat in my $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out log file:
https://pastebin.com/Cpfs9xCk
So I followed this post…
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How do I fix my systemctl status tomcat?
How can I get systemctl status tomcat to return 'success' instead of 'failed'?
This is my etc/systemd/system/tomcat.service file:
[Unit]
Description=Apache Tomcat Web Application Container
After=syslog.target…
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shibd daemon 'timeout' on systemctl start
I have a server that uses the shibboleth2 shibd daemon to allow remote authentication to a database.
The daemon reads a very large federation metadata file on starting/reloading (circa 34MB). This needs several minutes to process.
Previously it…
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