Re: Creating a user-level systemd unit

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2021-06-29 at 08:00 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2021, at 07:43, Patrick O'Callaghan
>  wrote:
> > and tried to enable it:
> >
> > $ sudo systemctl enable startinsync
> >   Failed to enable unit: Unit file startinsync.service does not
> > exist.
>
> It is a user systemd unit. To enable it as a user (run this as your
> user, not as root):
>
> systemctl —user enable startinsync.service
>
> (This will populated directories and symlinks in your home directory)
>
> If you want it enabled for all users, run:
>
> sudo systemctl —user —global enable startinsync.service
>
> This will create the symlinks in /etc/systemd/user/ to enable for all
> users logging in. It runs as root because it needs to edit files in
> /etc.

Thanks, that seems to have worked.

poc