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

A vast majority of Linux systems these days are using systemd – a suite of programs aimed at managing and interconnecting different parts of the system. Systemd started replacing the init process back ...

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 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 ...

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 ...