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My operating system is Ubuntu Bionic beaver.

I have written a systemd serivce unit:

/etc/systemd/user# ll total 20 drwxrw-r-x 2 rock64 rock64 4096 Nov 23 15:06 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 20 07:21 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 rock64 rock64 74 Nov 23 14:30 photon_uploader.env -rwxr-xr-x 1 rock64 rock64 463 Nov 23 14:50 photon_uploader.service* -rw-r--r-- 1 rock64 rock64 175 Nov 23 14:57 photon_uploader.socket

but if I try enabling it I get error:

 systemctl enable photon_uploader Failed to enable unit: Unit file photon_uploader.service does not exist.

I couldnt think of where to systematically put the service file , so I put it under user folder, and since I install service from a remote location , I rsync, and I have given the user folder ownership to non-root user. I

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  • Did you run systemctl daemon-reload? Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 16:35
  • Relating unix.stackexchange.com/q/15348/117549 Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 16:37
  • @JeffSchaller yes even then I get the same error. Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 16:44
  • is the file permission and ownership has to do until I read the man pages. Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 16:50

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For my userspace systemd service, I put my files in $HOME/.config/systemd/user. Then, I ran systemctl enable --user my_service.

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  • well I created a symlink of photon_uploader.service in /etc/systemd/system from /etc/systemd/user/photon_uploader.service then I did systemctl daemon-reload and enabled it, and started it worked. But when I disabled it and try to reenable it, I again got error, service not found, so I had to manually create the symlink again. Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 17:44
  • If you move your files to the directory I posted, you won't need to use symlinks. Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 18:05
  • gives me permission denied error while trying to rsync Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 18:10
  • Run mkdir -p $HOME/.config/systemd/user; mv /etc/systemd/user/* $HOME/.config/systemd/user, then systemctl enable --user photon_uploader. Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 18:13
  • didnt worked . the systemd fodler in $HOME/.config didnt existed so I created it. but I got error Failed to enable unit: Unit file photon_uploader.service does not exist. Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 18:16

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