On 30 January 2016 at 12:48, Andre "Osku" Schmidt <andre.osku.schmidt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hello, > > thought i'd ask here first, in case it's a distro problem. > > was wondering if we can use systemd to start and stop a daemon for > testing purposes during development. meaning, i would like to not have > to "install" my daemon nor its systemd service file, and instead run > all from the working directory. > > from systemd.unit man page i got the impression that this example would work: > > ❱ tree $PWD > /data/projects/hmm > └── systemd > └── user > └── foobar.service > > ❱ cat systemd/user/foobar.service > [Unit] > Description=Foo Bar > [Service] > ExecStart=/usr/bin/sleep 42 > > ❱ XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$PWD systemctl --user start foobar > Failed to start foobar.service: Unit foobar.service failed to load: No > such file or directory. > > am i doing it wrong, or? the daemon reads and starts the service not systemctl. in recent versions of systemd you can symlink the service file from ouside ~/.config/systemd/ too ps. what exactly are you testing? there's also systemd-run -- damjan
