The Type=oneshot service unit: blocks on a start operation until the first process exits, and its state will be reported as “activating”; once the first process exits, transitions from “activating” straight to “inactive”, unless RemainAfterExit=true is set (in which case it becomes “active” with no processes!); may have any number (0 or more) of ExecStart= … Read more
By default, a SIGTERM is sent, followed by 90 seconds of waiting followed by a SIGKILL. Killing processes with systemd is very customizable and well-documented. I recommend reading all of man systemd.kill as well as reading about ExecStop= in man systemd.service. To respond to those signals, refer to the signal handling documentation for the language … Read more
For people from Google: Validate with sudo systemd-analyze verify NAME.service When using a symlink, make sure it uses absolute path Make sure the name is like /etc/systemd/system/*.service Do sudo systemctl daemon-reload after changes
After some research I found that you can’t delete logs for a specific systemd unit, because the logs are interlaced and if you delete only one unit you’ll corrupt the logs, so journalctl doesn’t let you.
By default, a SIGTERM is sent, followed by 90 seconds of waiting followed by a SIGKILL. Killing processes with systemd is very customizable and well-documented. I recommend reading all of man systemd.kill as well as reading about ExecStop= in man systemd.service. To respond to those signals, refer to the signal handling documentation for the language … Read more
You can run the sleep command before your ExecStart with ExecStartPre : [Service] ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 30