Control services, read logs, profile boot time, and inspect crashes with these four built-in systemd tools.

For systemd, the word “UNIT” refers to any resource that the system knows how to operate and manage. To list those that are enabled, you can use a command like this: $ systemctl list-unit-files ...

I will confess. I started writing this post about some stupid systemd tricks. However, I wanted to explain a little about systemd first, and that wound up being longer than the tricks. So this Linux ...

This is on CentOS 7. The behavior seems idiotic, so I assume the problem is me not understanding something basic. FWIW, this is with both services in question installed but not yet enabled.

I'm trying to use a systemd unit file to control a service instead of an init script. This is CentOS 7, if relevant. My unit file is ...