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systemctl access denied when root

When I run sudo systemctl disable avahi-daemon.socket I get Failed to execute operation: Access denied But it's run as root, how can access be denied? (CentOS 7)
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How do I get systemctl to print in color when being interacted with from a non-tty?

When I run a command like this: # systemctl status plexmediaserver I get nicely colored output. But when I run the following command: # watch -n300 --color systemctl status plexmediaserver Is there any way I can do this watch command with color…
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“sudo: systemctl: command not found” when run on CentOS 6.6

I am using CentOS 6.6. When I try running the command sudo systemctl start elasticsearch I get an error like this: sudo: systemctl: command not found As per my understanding systemctl is not supported in CentOS versions 6.9 and before. Can someone…
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How does systemctl schedule system shutdown?

When I type shutdown -h +30, Linux somehow schedules runlevel's change within 30 minutes. On Debian, /sbin/shutdown is symbolic link to /bin/systemctl. My tests indicate that shutdown does not use neither cron nor systemd timers. How does system…
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How to enable systemd on WSL2: Ubuntu 20 and CentOS 8

I'm on WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux, v2) and got the CentOS 8 WSL from: https://github.com/yuk7/CentWSL And the Ubuntu 20 WSL downloaded from Windows Store has no systemd enabled too. Got it run as usual, however, systemd is not running,…
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A start job is running for sys-subsystem-net-devices

So a while back I was unable to get my wifi to automatically connect in Arch Linux, I looked up some videos and found one that made me do the command sudo systemctl enable with something like netctl-auto@ and then something at the end. Well, I…
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Why does systemctl show high memory usage when top and htop show much less?

I'm running an apache2.4 web server, and noticed that when I run systemctl status apache2 or run service apache2 status, it says it is using 4.2GiB of RAM, which isn't a problem for the amount of RAM I have, but I am confused, since top and htop…
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InfluxDB failed to start as a service

I'm trying to configure InfluxDB for Automatic start-up on a RHEL7 machine. if I do: sudo systemctl start influxdb the service fails [dadmin@localhost dashboard]$ sudo systemctl start influxdb [sudo] password for dadmin: [dadmin@localhost…
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Error enabling sshd on Ubuntu 16.04

I just installed Ubuntu Server 16.04 on a virtual machine and then installed openssh-server. When I tried to enable sshd: systemctl enable sshd.service I got this message: Failed to execute operation: Too many levels of symbolic links Does anyone…
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pronunciation of 'ctl' in commands like 'systemctl'

There are sorts of commands like 'systemctl', 'hostnamectl', or 'jounralctl'. I realize that 'ctl' is shorthand for control, but I'm wondering what the generally accepted pronunciation of 'ctl' is.
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systemctl debian 8 jessie: Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1

Unfortunately, in my Debian 8 jessie systemctl does not work at all. Every systemctl command results in: Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1 systecmtl status udev Failed to get D-Bus connection: Unknown error -1 How can I fix it? I…
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How to debug old initd script under systemd?

I have an older initd script to start my application. It worked fine under older versions of SuSE, but fails on Open SuSE 12.3. The strange thing is cd /etc/init.d ; ./script start works fine. /etc/init.d/script start shows a redirection to…
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setting environment variables from command line inside unit files

I am trying to set a date inside the unit file for logging my unit file look like this: [Unit] Description=Jetty…
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Ubuntu systemctl service fails with: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE

I am writing a python script that subscribes to some MQTT topics to localhost MQTT broker and when a message is pushed, the script will call a function in another script on the same directory to load the changes into an SQL database. The script is…
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Ubuntu 16.04 Systemd not possible to use systemctl

I have a Ubuntu 16.04 server, since the last restart, systemctl doesn't work anymore. For example if I want to start the nginx, I get the following error: root@SERVER:/# systemctl start nginx Failed to start nginx.service: Unknown unit:…
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