On 30 January 2016 at 12:48, Andre "Osku" Schmidt <andre.osku.schmidt@gmail.com> wrote:
hello,
thought i'd ask here first, in case it's a distro problem.
was wondering if we can use systemd to start and stop a daemon for testing purposes during development. meaning, i would like to not have to "install" my daemon nor its systemd service file, and instead run all from the working directory.
from systemd.unit man page i got the impression that this example would work:
❱ tree $PWD /data/projects/hmm └── systemd └── user └── foobar.service
❱ cat systemd/user/foobar.service [Unit] Description=Foo Bar [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/sleep 42
❱ XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$PWD systemctl --user start foobar Failed to start foobar.service: Unit foobar.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
am i doing it wrong, or?
the daemon reads and starts the service not systemctl. in recent versions of systemd you can symlink the service file from ouside ~/.config/systemd/ too ps. what exactly are you testing? there's also systemd-run -- damjan