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Replaces initd. It should be more efficient. Honestly I don't see the benefits.
Replaces initd. It should be more efficient. Honestly I don't see the benefits.
It also provides timed execution like cron does equally well.


The service command invoke script in /etc/init.d.
The service command invoke script in /etc/init.d.
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:Run all scripts with the 'status' option. Tells you which services are up.
:Run all scripts with the 'status' option. Tells you which services are up.


It also provides timed execution like cron does equally well.  
;systemctl list-units
:Show all known units. Alternative for <code>service --status-all</code> that does not work on modern RedHat versions.


;systemctl list-timers
;systemctl list-timers

Revision as of 07:42, 17 April 2020

Replaces initd. It should be more efficient. Honestly I don't see the benefits.

It also provides timed execution like cron does equally well.

The service command invoke script in /etc/init.d.

service --status-all
Run all scripts with the 'status' option. Tells you which services are up.
systemctl list-units
Show all known units. Alternative for service --status-all that does not work on modern RedHat versions.
systemctl list-timers
Show all active timers

E.g for certbot (letsencrypt)

$ systemctl list-timers
NEXT                        LEFT         LAST                        PASSED UNIT                         ACTIVATES
do 2018-11-29 00:00:00 CET  2h 5min left wo 2018-11-28 12:00:01 CET  9h ago certbot.timer                certbot.service

2 timers listed.
Pass --all to see loaded but inactive timers, too.

$ cat /lib/systemd/system/certbot.timer
[Unit]
Description=Run certbot twice daily

[Timer]
OnCalendar=*-*-* 00,12:00:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

$ cat /lib/systemd/system/certbot.service 
[Unit]
Description=Certbot
Documentation=file:///usr/share/doc/python-certbot-doc/html/index.html
Documentation=https://letsencrypt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/perl -e 'sleep int(rand(3600))'
ExecStart=/usr/bin/certbot -q renew
PrivateTmp=true
systemctl daemon-reload
After changing a configuration file reload it
systemctl mask UNIT>
Link the timer to /dev/null effectively disabling it