• Gonzako@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 days ago

    How does one actually use systemd? I tried making a script to trigger every time I boot up but it didn’t work out for me

    • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
      6·
      5 days ago

      This should work. Add a file /home/username/.config/systemd/user/my_cool_service.service with this content:

      [Unit]
Description=My cool service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/home/username/my_cool_script.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

      Now add the script /home/username/my_cool_script.sh.

      #!/bin/bash
echo "Hello from my cool script."

      Enable and run the service.

      $ chmod +x /home/username/my_cool_script.sh
$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
$ systemctl --user enable my_cool_service.service
# Optional:
$ systemctl --user start my_cool_service.service 
$ journalctl -e --user-unit=my_cool_service # You should see the echoed string from the script.

      The service should now run every time the user username logs in.

      • Gonzako@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 days ago

        Oh, thanks! My distro has a package that has a bunch of visual configurations that reset on boot and I wanted to do my configs on top