Re: Creating a user-level systemd unit

[Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/06/2021 19:42, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> I'm trying to get a specific service to start on login, and the usual
> method (KDE Autostart) isn't working so I'm trying to do it with a
> systemd unit:
>
>     $ cat startinsync.service
>     [Unit]
>     Description=insync-headless service
>     After=default.target
>     
>     [Service]
>     ExecStart=/bin/sh /usr/bin/insync-headless start
>     KillSignal=SIGINT
>     
>     [Install]
>     WantedBy=default.target
>
> The docs say that the place to put the unit file is given by:
>
>     $ pkg-config systemd --variable=systemduserunitdir
>     /usr/lib/systemd/user
>     
> So I copied the file there:
>
>     $ ls -l /usr/lib/systemd/user/startinsync.service
>     -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 177 Jun 29 12:31 /usr/lib/systemd/user/startinsync.service
>     
> and tried to enable it:
>
>     $ sudo systemctl enable startinsync
>     Failed to enable unit: Unit file startinsync.service does not exist.
>     
> I'm out of ideas.

Did you do

systemctl  daemon-reload

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