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 ...

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 ...