systemd service

aagaag · 01-18-2016, 11:39 AM

I am trying to play with systemd in order to understand it better. For starters, I would like to create a systemd service that copies a bunch of files from one place to another, and to execute it every 5 minutes. So I created the file "/etc/systemd/system/copy_munin_files_to_kellerpc.service" which contains:

Code:

[Service]
User=aag
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=cp /data/munin /home/aag

Now, this does not work. What else do I need to make it work?

jpollard · 01-18-2016, 07:42 PM

Depends. I'm no expert, specially on systemd, but if you have either /data or /home as mountable devices, it may not yet be mounted at the time it runs. You have no dependencies specified, and without that it will run as soon as the system boots - and it would fail.

There ought to be some log entries with at least some reason for the failure.