[systemd-devel] Auto-start of a Service in systemd

[Raghavendra. H. R]

It's working fine now. We should give the default target of the system
for *WantedBy=
*of the Install section.
So I used graphical.target in the Install section and it fixed my issue.

Thanks for the information.



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Regards,

Raghavendra. H. R
(Raghu)

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Raghavendra. H. R <raghuhr84 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I ran *"systemctl enable test.service" *but when I restart it shows only
> that the service is only enabled but not active and running.
>
> Here is the status of test.service
>
> *? test.service - Hey Bings*
> *   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/test.service; enabled)*
> *   Active: inactive (dead)*
>
>
> For *WantedBy= *which attribute should be given, whether it is
> "default.target" or the default target of the system ?
> Running *systemctl get-default* shows graphical.target as the default
> target.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Raghavendra. H. R
> (Raghu)
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 12:23 PM, Raghavendra. H. R <raghuhr84 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I'm a newbie in Systemd init system and I'm trying to auto boot/start my
>> > service in systemd. But my service gets only enabled and it never runs
>> > automatically.
>> >
>> > I modifying my unit file to depend on sysinit.target and
>> multi-user.target
>> > by making use of I used After= this also didnt help.
>> >
>> > I would like to do something in my unit file from which systemd starts
>> my
>> > service automatically after starting it's own system related services.
>> >
>>
>> There is no such thing as "own systemd services". All services are
>> equal (but some are more equal than others :)
>>
>> > Can anyone help me regarding this ?
>> >
>> >
>> > My sample service
>> > =============
>> > [Unit]
>> > Description=Hey Bings
>> >
>> > [Service]
>> > ExecStart="Run an executable"
>> >
>> > [Install]
>> > WantedBy=multi-user.target or sysinit.target
>> >
>>
>> sysinit.target is wrong, it should never be used for normal service.
>> multi-user.target should work as long as it is your default target (or
>> dependency of default target).
>>
>> You did run "systemctl enable your.service", did not you? What
>> "systemctl status your.service" says?
>>
>
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