I’m surprised about the amount of people not happy with SystemD and don’t even know how Unit files works. So as a personal note and as a way to propagate this simple information, here’s an example.
It’s almost always a bad idea to make the service unit “system-wide” when creating one for a particual use-case. So here’s my user service unit exemple for Snac.
# file: ~/.config/systemd/user/snac.service
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[Unit]
Description=Snac Activity Pub Server
[Service]
Type=simple
StandardOutput=journal
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "snac httpd /home/me/snac-data"
KillSignal=SIGINT
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
- Start the service;
systemctl --user start snac.service. - Enable the service;
systemctl --user enable snac.service. - Check the service logs;
journalctl --user -u snac.service -e. - Update the service if we edit it afterward;
systemctl --user daemon-reload. - Keep the service running after user logout;
loginctl enable-linger.
And that’s it.