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 ...

If you serve as an admin over Linux systems, one tool that you’ll fall back on daily is systemctl. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to list services with this command. Linux is an incredibly ...

Don't rest easy just because systemctl is active—viewing the path to 'usability' in 5 layers"The service is active, but users can't use it."When you first start managing Linux, this situation seems ...

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 ...

Lightweight virtual containers with PID 1. In this article, I demonstrate a method to build one Linux system within another using the latest utilities within the systemd suite of management tools. The ...

Assuming you have created the program executable in the directory and created the unit file, you can get systemd to notice it by restarting it. Most of your command line interaction with systemd is ...

If you're a Windows administrator with a few Linux servers, or a new administrator starting out on Linux, you need to learn how to start, stop and check services. Recent changes have made Linux ...

Using Linux, especially as a server, often means dealing with new errors and resolving them. Most of them are easy to fix with just a web search. But some errors may require that you do some digging.

A change in the most recent version of systemd, the init system that has been recently adopted by many GNU/Linux distributions, has users up in arms. The change, announced a few days ago, kills ...

GRUB2 and systemd present a major change for Linux boot options in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, including a change in how admins troubleshoot a server that doesn't boot ...