Questions tagged [systemctl]
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How do I get systemctl to print in color when being interacted with from a non-tty?
When I run a command like this:
# systemctl status plexmediaserver
I get nicely colored output. But when I run the following command:
# watch -n300 --color systemctl status plexmediaserver
Is ...
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systemctl access denied when root
When I run
sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.socket
I get
Failed to execute operation: Access denied
But it's run as root, how can access be denied? (CentOS 7)
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How to enable systemd on WSL2: Ubuntu 20 and CentOS 8
I'm on WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux, v2) and got the CentOS 8 WSL from:
https://github.com/yuk7/CentWSL
And the Ubuntu 20 WSL downloaded from Windows Store has no systemd enabled too.
Got it ...
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“sudo: systemctl: command not found” when run on CentOS 6.6
I am using CentOS 6.6. When I try running the command
sudo systemctl start elasticsearch
I get an error like this:
sudo: systemctl: command not found
As per my understanding systemctl is not ...
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How does systemctl schedule system shutdown?
When I type shutdown -h +30, Linux somehow schedules runlevel's change within 30 minutes. On Debian, /sbin/shutdown is symbolic link to /bin/systemctl. My tests indicate that shutdown does not use ...
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A start job is running for sys-subsystem-net-devices
So a while back I was unable to get my wifi to automatically connect in Arch Linux, I looked up some videos and found one that made me do the command sudo systemctl enable with something like netctl-...
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Why does systemctl show high memory usage when top and htop show much less?
I'm running an apache2.4 web server, and noticed that when I run systemctl status apache2 or run service apache2 status, it says it is using 4.2GiB of RAM, which isn't a problem for the amount of RAM ...
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InfluxDB failed to start as a service
I'm trying to configure InfluxDB for Automatic start-up on a RHEL7 machine.
if I do:
sudo systemctl start influxdb
the service fails
[dadmin@localhost dashboard]$ sudo systemctl start influxdb
[...
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Ubuntu systemctl service fails with: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
I am writing a python script that subscribes to some MQTT topics to localhost MQTT broker and when a message is pushed, the script will call a function in another script on the same directory to load ...
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setting environment variables from command line inside unit files
I am trying to set a date inside the unit file for logging
my unit file look like this:
[Unit]
Description=Jetty service
After=multiuser.target
[Service]
Environment=MAIN_CLASS="com.candorgrc....
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Error enabling sshd on Ubuntu 16.04
I just installed Ubuntu Server 16.04 on a virtual machine and then installed openssh-server. When I tried to enable sshd:
systemctl enable sshd.service
I got this message:
Failed to execute ...
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pronunciation of 'ctl' in commands like 'systemctl' [closed]
There are sorts of commands like 'systemctl', 'hostnamectl', or 'jounralctl'. I realize that 'ctl' is shorthand for control, but I'm wondering what the generally accepted pronunciation of 'ctl' is.
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systemctl debian 8 jessie: Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1 [duplicate]
Unfortunately, in my Debian 8 jessie systemctl does not work at all.
Every systemctl command results in:
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1
systecmtl status udev
Failed to ...
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`systemctl --user` results in "Failed to connect to bus" in google compute instance
I'm connected to a google compute instance via ssh with Debian 9. When I try any systemctl --user ... command (systemctl --user status for instance) I get an error: "Failed to connect to bus: No ...
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How to debug old initd script under systemd?
I have an older initd script to start my application. It worked fine under older versions of SuSE, but fails on Open SuSE 12.3.
The strange thing is
cd /etc/init.d ; ./script start
works fine.
/...
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Shorter output from systemctl status
Is there a way to get shorter/custom output from systemctl status? I really only need the active line prepended with the name of the service. So something like this:
apache2: active (running) ...
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systemd keeps stopping and restarting a service
Before systemd, my /etc/init.d/referee script would start/stop/restart a service without issue. Converting to systemd, which calls the same init.d script, the service starts without an error and then ...
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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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systemctl Failed to start service, Invalid argument
I need to run a Qt application on startup with root permission , below is the script I created using systemctl named QtApp.service
[Unit]
Description=QtApp
[Service]
ExecStart= exec su -l user -c '...
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Issues starting Nessus in Kali Linux from WSL2
I am trying to install nessus for a vulnerability study in Kali linux. Kali is running as a Win-Kex instance from WSL2 on windows 11. I have downloaded Nessus and trying to install with:
sudo dpkg -i ...
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How to debug old init.d script under systemd?
I can't get any output from the script.
systemd just prints:
sinopia.service: control process exited, code=exited status=203
Failed to start LSB: starts the sinopia web server.
I can't even launch ...
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Linux: how to automatically restart service if there is error in log?
Hello in the sudo systemctl status <service> I sometimes see an error in text like [info] asio async_shutdown error: asio.system:32 (Broken pipe), yet it is still marked as [info] and status of ...
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Why is my PostgreSQL startup service not working properly until I restart it manually after reboot?
I have PostgreSQL running on my Linux server.
PostgreSQL is enabled and is active after reboot.
In the config file from PostgreSQL I enabled remote access. But every time after I reboot my device, the ...
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Failed to connect to bus: Connection refused
I am using Nas server, Netgear Readynas.
This is my uname
root@nas316:~# uname -a
Linux nas316 4.4.190.x86_64.1 #1 SMP Mon Oct 28 01:55:46 UTC 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Somehow can't restart server.
root@...
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Changing port for sshd.socket
I recently installed Arch Linux ARM on my Raspberry Pi. I wanted to build a small webserver with an SSH access. (It's currently only accessible via LAN but I want to change that in the future.) The ...
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Process started with systemctl throws no errors, but does not appear in process list?
Unix newbie here. I am trying to start gunicorn with systemctl. No error message appears, but it's also not showing up in the processes list:
$ sudo systemctl start gunicorn
$ ps aux | grep gunicorn
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Can't start Minecraft server in tmux with systemctl
I'm trying to automate my Minecraft server because having to manually wrangle tmux sessions gets really old after a while. Here's the systemd service file I wrote to help me with that:
[Unit]
...
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Why does systemd process stop as soon as it starts for foreman server process?
I am trying to export a simple Ruby app using foreman. Based on its usage for systemd, I appear to be doing things correctly.
However, when I start the target/service, I get status messages along the ...
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How does symlink from shutdown to systemctl work?
which shutdown
returns
/usr/bin/shutdown
I also tried sudo which shutdown just in case...but got the same result.
I can see that
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 13 03:38 /usr/bin/shutdown -> ...
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Loading configurations failed while starting prometheus service in Ubuntu 18.04
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 OS and I have installed prometheus on it following steps here (I just changed links and versions).
But when I tried to start the service with sudo systemctl start prometheus, I ...
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systemd failed at step user spawning no such process
I am trying to run my custom service using systemctl, but it alwasy gave me error:
Oct 29 14:09:30 ip-10-0-0-215.ap-southeast-1.compute.internal systemd[12402]: Failed at step USER spawning /home/ec2-...
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systemctl (Fedora 17) and interacting spawned processes's consoles
Introduction
I've recently upgraded to Fedora 17 and I'm getting used to the newer systemctl daemon manager versus shell init scripts.
A feature I need on some of my daemons is the ability to ...
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Set system time after Suspend
After waking up (after Power Off/Log Out > Suspend) the system time is wrong (either in the future or past).
$ systemctl restart systemd-timesyncd.service
makes it right again. Is there a way to ...
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What is CPUQuota PerSec and PerPeriod in systemd?
The manpage for systemd.resource-control says nothing about CPUQuotaPerSecUSec and little about CPUQuotaPeriodUSec.
It says nothing either about being set with the value 'infinity', as it is in the ...
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systemctl hibernate gives error not enough swap space for hibernation although the swap space in use is four times the RAM size
I already know that in Linux systems systemctl hibernate will not allow hibernation if there is not enough swap space for hibernation. But in my case the swap space was set to 32 GiB while the RAM ...
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auto mount by service + service not mount the folder automatically
we create the following service on redhat version 7.2
more nfsshare.mount
[Unit]
Description=nfs mount script
Requires=network-online.target
After=network-online.service
[Mount]
What=...
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How systemctl scheduler works and where it stores running services data?
I'm not asking about the files in the filesystem that configures the services, but about the internal database of systemctl itself, or perhaps the files that systemctl creates.
Questions:
How does ...
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TigerVNC server not working within systemctl but works fine separately
I've set up TigerVNC server on Ubuntu 22.04LTS. I've created a file at /etc/systemd/system/[email protected] to make the service start on start-up, using the following configuration:
[Unit]
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systemd service not executing script?
I'm using a Debian 9.11 system. I ran into a problem where systemd service runs my script but does not produce the desired result.
I created a script named my_autossh.sh and put it under /usr/bin. ...
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Cleaning/Debugging services
I have a shell environment library where I maintain all types of checks and helpers functions for my bash/zsh environments (Linux and macOS). I like that periodic checks automatically inspect my OS' ...
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systemd -- very unclear error msg/warning, "Refusing to accept PID outside of service control group..."
When doing systemctl-status on an old application, we are now seeing this error/warning:
"systemd[1]: Refusing to accept PID outside of service control group, acquired through unsafe symlink ...
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What causes systemctl to show or hide memory or CPU usage of services?
Today morning:
# systemctl status udev
? systemd-udevd.service - udev Kernel Device Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/systemd-udevd.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: ...
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Similar commands with find are not outputting the same
I'm trying to run a find command on a directory which contains unit files:
find /home/pi/units -type f -name "*.service"
which returns
/home/pi/units/manager.service
I then want to pipe that ...
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systemctl cannot start service (code=exited status =0/success)
I installed Shadowsocks-r in my CentOS 7 server, and I want to use systemd to manage it. So I created a file in /etc/systemd/system called shadowsocks-r.service.
shadowsocks-r.service:
[Unit]
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cannot re-enable sshd after systemd mask
After disabling sshd, I'm having issues re-enabling/starting it via systemctl.
I'm sure I've hosed something, but this is what I did:
~fresh xubuntu 16.04.2 install
apt install openssh-server
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why is systemd/systemctl system v?
I recently installed arch-linux, where support for tsystem V has been DROPPED in lieu of systemd. I'm wondering if anyone knows exactly why. I know that systemd is newer, but does rc.d have security ...
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How to define command line options in my sql systemctl service
I have a mysql install on Digital ocean cloud.
And by default it's working with system ctl service.
I need to run the server with those options :
That have taken from here.
So I've tried to edit this ...
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Why k3s install failed? Job for k3s.service failed because the control process exited with error code
I installed k3s on Ubuntu 22.04
curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | INSTALL_K3S_EXEC="server --flannel-backend none" K3S_TOKEN=prokupljejbb sh -s -
[INFO] Installing k3s to /usr/local/bin/k3s
[...
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REDHAT machine + rsyslogd eating up 10+ GB
we notice about this problem recently
we found that rsyslog service is eating memory and some times its up to 10G
we have different kind of redhat machines as version 7.6 and 7.9
is it possible to ...
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systemctl commands under WSL
I am running Ubuntu inside Windows using WSL.
I receive the following errors when I run scripts with systemctl command:
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
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