PexMor / systemd-user-skeleton

Reference skeleton for user level systemd service

SystemD User Skeleton

Reference skeleton for user level systemd service. In this repo you can find detail on how to start a simple service as a user with benefit of SystemD machinery.

• https://systemd.io/ ~ Home page of SystemD
• https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ ~ Wikipedia info about SystemD
• https://github.com/systemd/systemd ~ The source code
• https://www.spi-inc.org/projects/systemd/ ~ Software of public intrest
• http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/systemd.html ~ Lennart Poettering (original author)
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/systemd/User ~ Arch Linux User level help

At first you have to enable the paerticular user to use the good parts of SystemD

sudo loginctl enable-linger $USER

Then you can start by creating ~/.config/systemd/user folder and start filling it with your services, scheduled jobs, etc.

When a new *.service is added or modified in there then you have to invoke systemctl --user daemon-reload to refresh the unit in systemd memory.

Then you can use other goodies:

• systemctl --user - to see short tree of your units
• systemctl --user --state failed - to se what failed
• systemctl --user status - to see longer list of units
• systemctl -user --type=service --state=active - shorter list of units
• systemctl --user enable - enable to start the service next time you (re)start your box

and other systemctl and journalctl commands, do not forget to always add --user flag.