Re: [arch-general] systemd user unit files from custom directory

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Damjan Georgievski wrote:

On 30 January 2016 at 12:48, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:

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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

awesome, didn't know about systemd-run, seems perfect for my use-case, thank you for the tip! Cheers Andre Schmidt ps. FWIW, during development of my daemon (a "webapp"/server) i want to start the daemon, run (functional) tests, and stop the daemon, all without needing to "install" anything.