Systemd/Services

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This page is useful to publish systemd service files that are missing in the appropriate package in the repositories. These files can be copied from other distributions or created by yourself.

Change name of wireless interface

For those rare occasions where this is necessary.

/etc/iftab

wlan* mac [mac-address]

Replace [mac-address] with the one corresponding to the networking hardware.

/etc/systemd/system/fix-wireless-interface.service

[Unit]
Description=Changes the wireless interface eth1 to the proper wlan*
Wants=network.target
Before=network.target
 
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ifrename -c /etc/iftab
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

dropbear

/etc/systemd/system/dropbear.service

[Unit]
Description=Dropbear SSH server

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dropbear -p 22 -d /etc/dropbear/dropbear_dss_host_key -w -P /var/run/dropbear.pid
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

IPv6 (Hurricane Electric)

/etc/systemd/system/he-ipv6.service

[Unit]
Description=he.net IPv6 tunnel
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/sbin/ip tunnel add he-ipv6 mode sit remote 209.51.161.14 local <local IPv4> ttl 255
ExecStart=/sbin/ip link set he-ipv6 up mtu 1480
ExecStart=/sbin/ip addr add <local IPv6>/64 dev he-ipv6
ExecStart=/sbin/ip -6 route add ::/0 dev he-ipv6
ExecStop=/sbin/ip -6 route del ::/0 dev he-ipv6
ExecStop=/sbin/ip link set he-ipv6 down
ExecStop=/sbin/ip tunnel del he-ipv6

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Logmein Hamachi

/etc/systemd/system/logmein-hamachi.service

[Unit]
Description=LogMeIn Hamachi daemon
After=local-fs.target network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/logmein-hamachi/bin/hamachid
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Filesystem mounts

See: Systemd#Filesystem_mounts

screen

Autostarts screen for the specified user. (e.g. `systemctl enable screen@florian.service`)

/etc/systemd/system/screen@.service

[Unit]
Description=screen
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=%i
ExecStart=/usr/bin/screen -dmS autoscreen
ExecStop=/usr/bin/screen -S autoscreen -X quit

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Static Ethernet network

This is a custom service file for static Ethernet configurations.

/etc/conf.d/network

interface=eth0
address=192.168.0.1
netmask=24
broadcast=192.168.0.255
gateway=192.168.0.254

/etc/systemd/system/network.service

[Unit]
Description=Network Connectivity
Wants=network.target
Before=network.target
BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-${interface}.device 
After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-${interface}.device 


[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
EnvironmentFile=/etc/conf.d/network
ExecStart=/sbin/ip link set dev ${interface} up
ExecStart=/sbin/ip addr add ${address}/${netmask} broadcast ${broadcast} dev ${interface}
ExecStart=/sbin/ip route add default via ${gateway}

ExecStop=/sbin/ip addr flush dev ${interface}
ExecStop=/sbin/ip link set dev ${interface} down

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Set network interface in promiscuous mode

/etc/systemd/system/promiscuous@.service

[Unit]
Description=Set %i interface in promiscuous mode

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ip link set dev %i promisc on
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

If you want to enable promiscuous mode on interface eth0 run:

 # systemctl enable promiscuous@eth0.service

shellinaboxd

[1]: "Shell In A Box implements a web server that can export arbitrary command line tools to a web based terminal emulator."

/etc/systemd/system/shellinabox.service (do not name it shellinaboxd.service if you installed it from AUR) 

[Unit]
Description=Serve a login-terminal over http on  port 4200.
Required=sshd.service
After=sshd.service

[Service]
User=root
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/shellinaboxd -s/:SSH -b -p 4200 -c /tmp --css=/usr/share/doc/shellinabox/white-on-black.css
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
KillMode=process
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

tmux

Starts tmux for specified user (eg. tmux@main-user.service)

/etc/systemd/system/tmux@.service

[Unit]
Description=Start tmux in detached session

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tmux new-session -s %u -d
ExecStop=/usr/bin/tmux kill-session -t %u
User=%I
KillMode=none

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

tpfand

/etc/systemd/system/tpfand.service

[Unit]
Description=ThinkPad Fan Control

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/tpfand.pid
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/tpfand

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

truecrypt volume setup

This service employ truecrypt as a mapper only and requires you to create an entry in fstab to mount the mapped & unencrypted device to your desired mountpoint like for instance so:

/etc/fstab

/dev/mapper/truecrypt1  /home/          ext4 defaults        0       2

The 2 means your fs will be fscked regularly.

/usr/lib/systemd/system/truecrypt@.service

[Unit]
Description=Truecrypt Setup for %I
DefaultDependencies=no
Conflicts=umount.target
Before=umount.target
After=systemd-readahead-collect.service systemd-readahead-replay.service

[Service]
RemainAfterExit=yes
StandardInput=tty-force
ExecStart=/usr/bin/truecrypt --filesystem=none %I
ExecStop=/usr/bin/truecrypt --filesystem=none -d %I

[Install]
WantedBy=cryptsetup.target

If your encrypted volume is /dev/sda2, you would enable the service with this command:

# systemctl enable truecrypt@dev-sda2.service

Note: Although it works, this service should stil be considered experimental, there might be better solutions to use truecrypt with systemd. If you use mpd or any other programme that needs to access the encrypted filesystem, put it into the line starting with Before=. Cheers to dgbaley27 for basically writing this! Improvements welcome!

Note: This way of doing it (specifically the use of tty-force) is not recommended according to this thread, which suggests an alternative approach similar to that taken for LUKS.

Note: There are 2 issues possibly arising from this approach: one is a possible timeout when the password is not entered within 90 seconds; and the second is the side-by-side compatibility of mounting more than one device in this way. The first can be resolved by slightly modifying each of the two files: first, add the option x-systemd.device-timeout=0 to the corresponding fstab mount line; and second, add the line Type=oneshot to the Service section of the truecrypt-service file in order to prevent timeout there. Now you can take as long as you want to enter the PW and the boot process will wait for you. For the second issue, if you have problems mounting more than one device during startup (e.g. with the two password prompts interfering) and/or want to avoid entering multiple passwords, you could consider securing the second and further devices by a keyfile located on the first encrypted device.

truecrypt (mount encrypted fs)

/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target/truecrypt-mount.service

[Unit]
Description=Mount Truecrypt-encrypted filesystems
ConditionFileIsExecutable=/usr/bin/truecrypt
#Requires=truecrypt-unmount.service
#Before=mpd.service
 
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/truecrypt -t /dev/sdXY /MOUNTPOINT
StandardInput=tty-force
RemainAfterExit=yes
 
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
#Also=truecrypt-unmount.service

Note: Gleaned from bpont on the forums. If you use mpd and have your music dir in ~, uncomment Before=mpd.service, which takes care that mpd is started after this script. If you also use truecrypt-unmount.service (see next service) uncomment the Requires=truecrypt-unmount.service and Also=truecrypt-unmount.service so it gets installed and activated by systemd automatically when using this script.

truecrypt (unmount encrypted fs)

/etc/systemd/system/multi-user/truecrypt-unmount.service

[Unit]
Description=Truecrypt unmount on shutdown, poweroff, reboot, system halt
Before=local-fs-pre.target
#Before=mpd.service
ConditionPathExistsGlob=/media/truecrypt*
DefaultDependencies=no

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/truecrypt -d
TimeoutSec=5
StandardInput=tty

[Install]
WantedBy=shutdown.target reboot.target halt.target poweroff.target

Note: I don't know if this works yet. It may be necessary to replace TimeoutSec=5 with ExecStart=sleep 5. If you use mpd, make sure to uncomment Before=mpd.service to make sure this service is executed after mpd is closed down (different order during the shutdown of processes than during start up!). Script gleaned from tladuke on the forums.

MPD Socket Activation

If the following mpd.socket file is enabled while mpd.service (provided by mpd) is disabled, systemd will not start mpd immediately, but it will listen on the appropriate sockets. When an mpd client attempts to connect on one of those sockets, systemd will start mpd.service and transparently hand over control of those ports to the mpd process.

If you prefer to listen on different UNIX sockets or network ports (even multiple sockets of each type), or if you prefer not to listen on network ports at all, you should add/edit/remove the appropriate "ListenStream=" lines in the [Socket] section of mpd.socket AND modify the appropriate lines /etc/mpd.conf (see "man 5 mpd.conf" for more details).

If you use different (even multiple) network or local sockets, or prefer not to use network sockets at all, simply add, change, or remove lines beginning with "ListenStream=" in the [Socket] section.

/usr/lib/systemd/system/mpd.socket

[Unit]
Description=Music Player Daemon Sockets

[Socket]
ListenStream=/var/run/mpd/socket
ListenStream=6600

[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

VideoLAN 2.0

Change the User parameter.

/etc/systemd/system/vlc.service

[Unit]
Description=VideoOnLAN Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
User=nobody
ExecStart=/usr/bin/cvlc --intf=lua --lua-intf=http --daemon --http-port 8090
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Xvfb

Change the User/Group parameters.

/etc/systemd/system/xinit.service

[Unit]
Description=xinit with xvfb
After=network.target

[Service]
User=bitlbee
Group=bitlbee
ExecStart=/usr/bin/xvfb-run bash %h/.xinitrc

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Nexus

This is for Sonatype's Nexus OSS Artifact Repository. nexus^AUR is in the AUR.

/etc/systemd/system/nexus.service

[Unit]
Description=Nexus OSS Artifact Repository

[Service]
Type=forking
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/conf.d/nexus
ExecStart=/opt/nexus/bin/nexus start
ExecStop=/opt/nexus/bin/nexus stop
ExecReload=/opt/nexus/bin/nexus restart
PIDFile=/opt/nexus/run/nexus.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Gitlab

/etc/systemd/system/gitlab.service

[Unit]
Description=Self Hosted Git Management
Requires=postgresql.service redis.service
After=postgresql.service redis.service
Wants=postfix.service gitlab-worker.service

[Service]
Type=forking
User=gitlab
WorkingDirectory=/home/gitlab/gitlab
ExecStart=/home/gitlab/gitlab/script/rails server -d -e production
PIDFile=/home/gitlab/gitlab/tmp/pids/server.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

/etc/systemd/system/gitlab-worker.service

[Unit]
Description=Gitlab Resque Worker
Requires=redis.service
After=redis.service
Wants=postfix.service postgresql.service

[Service]
Type=forking
User=gitlab
WorkingDirectory=/home/gitlab/gitlab
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c '. ~/.bashrc; . ./resque.sh'
ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/rm /home/gitlab/gitlab/tmp/pids/resque_worker.pid
PIDFile=/home/gitlab/gitlab/tmp/pids/resque_worker.pid

Cisco AnyConnect VPN

/etc/systemd/system/ciscovpn.service

[Unit]
Description=Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Agent
Requires=network.target remote-fs.target
After=network.target remote-fs.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/vpnagentd.pid
ExecStart=/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnagentd
ExecStop=/usr/bin/killall /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnagentd
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
# one may want to use multi-user.target instead
WantedBy=graphical.target

Emacs Daemon

/etc/systemd/system/emacs@.service

[Unit]
Description=Emacs: the extensible, self-documenting text editor

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/emacs --daemon --chdir %h
ExecStop=/usr/bin/emacsclient --eval "(progn (setq kill-emacs-hook 'nil) (kill-emacs))"
Restart=always
User=%i

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then, to enable the unit for your user:

# systemctl enable emacs@<username>
# systemctl start emacs@<username>

Source: EmacsWiki.

Monkey http server deamon

/etc/systemd/system/monkey.service

[Unit]
Description=Monkey http server deamon
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/YOUR/PATH/TO/monkey/bin/monkey -D
ExecStop=/bin/kill $MAINPID
ExecReload=/bin/kill $MAINPID ; /YOUR/PATH/TO/monkey/bin/monkey -D
PIDFile=/YOUR/PATH/TO/monkey/monkey.pid.80

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note: Replace /YOUR/PATH/TO entries with the path to monkey on your system

Note: PIDFile= entry should point to pidfile location specified in your monkey config file. The configured port number should be appended to the filename

Note: Gist available at: github.

VirtualBox virtual machines

/etc/systemd/system/vboxvmservice@.service

[Unit]
Description=VBox Virtual Machine %i Service
Requires=systemd-modules-load.service
After=systemd-modules-load.service

[Service]
User=user
Group=vboxusers
ExecStart=/usr/bin/VBoxHeadless -s %i
ExecStop=/usr/bin/VBoxManage controlvm %i savestate

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Note: Each virtual machine has its own service. Replace user with a user that is a member of the vboxusers group.

systemctl enable vboxvmservice@<vm name>.service

systemctl start vboxvmservice@<vm name>.service

Note: As of VirtualBox 4.2 there is another way to get virtual machines going: http://lifeofageekadmin.com/how-to-set-your-virtualbox-vm-to-automatically-startup/ Please edit the VirtualBox page if you figure it out.

redmine

/etc/systemd/system/redmine.service

[Unit]
Description=Redmine server
After=syslog.target
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=redmine2
Group=redmine2
Environment=GEM_HOME=/home/redmine2/.gem/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/ruby /usr/share/webapps/redmine/script/rails server webrick -e production

# Give a reasonable amount of time for the server to start up/shut down
TimeoutSec=300

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

See also

• Backing up Local Pacman database with Systemd
• systemd
• systemd at gentoo wiki