[systemd-devel] User systemd unit files

[Mantas Mikulėnas]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Chris Morgan <chmorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> We have a build environment that we use to build our software for
> desktop Linux and we are currently using Yocto to build for an
> embedded target.
>
> I'm looking for a way for developers to use the systemd unit files for
> our services out of their user owned build directory during
> development so we can use the same files during development that we
> would use during production.
>
> I came across 'systemd --user' but I'm not having much luck starting
> this up as my own user as it looked like $SYSTEMD_UNIT_PATH was
> exactly what I was looking to set.
>
> Fedora 20 cli output:
>
> $ /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --user
> Failed to create root cgroup hierarchy: Permission denied
> Failed to allocate manager object: Permission denied
>
> And some discussion on libreoffice pages seems to be indicating that
> 'systemd --user' isn't supported any more.

Specifically, running `systemd --user` directly is not supported
anymore. The user mode still works, but only for one "user" instance
per UID, launched through user@<uid>.service (recent releases start
this automatically upon logging in).

-- 
Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity at gmail.com>