systemd Unit Generator — Build & Export .service Files

Description

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Documentation

After

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Before

Wants

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Requires

BindsTo

Conflicts

ConditionPathExists

StartLimitIntervalSec

StartLimitBurst

Type

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ExecStart

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ExecStartPre

ExecStartPost

ExecReload

ExecStop

Restart

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RestartSec

User

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Group

WorkingDirectory

Environment

EnvironmentFile

RemainAfterExit

PIDFile

TimeoutStartSec

TimeoutStopSec

StandardOutput

StandardError

SyslogIdentifier

Nice

LimitNOFILE

KillMode

DynamicUser

WantedBy

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RequiredBy

Alias

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1 [Unit]
2 Description=My example service
3 After=network-online.target
4 Wants=network-online.target
5 
6 [Service]
7 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/myapp --port 8080
8 Restart=on-failure
9 RestartSec=5s
10 User=myapp
11 
12 [Install]
13 WantedBy=multi-user.target

Set it up run these on the target machine

1
Place the unit file. System-wide units live in /etc/systemd/system/. (Or just drop your downloaded file there with sudo cp.)
```
sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/myapp.service > /dev/null <<'EOF'
# …paste the generated file here…
EOF
```
2
Sanity-check the file for syntax errors and unknown directives.
```
sudo systemd-analyze verify /etc/systemd/system/myapp.service
```
3
Make systemd aware of the new or changed unit file.
```
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
```
4
Start it immediately AND enable it to start on boot. Drop --now to only enable.
```
sudo systemctl enable --now myapp.service
```
5
Check it's running. Use journalctl -u myapp.service -f to follow logs.
```
systemctl status myapp.service
```