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A simple daemon to track remote or local events and do actions the user wants to
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systemd unit broken (eventd-git arch linux) #38

Closed AhmedAA closed 6 years ago

AhmedAA commented 6 years ago

I cannot seem to get the systemd unit to work under arch linux with the eventd-git package from AUR.

I get the following output:

# aaa at noctis in ~ 
→ systemctl status eventd.service
● eventd.service - eventd
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/eventd.service; indirect; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-02-26 16:07:50 CET; 7s ago
     Docs: man:eventd(1)
           man:eventd.conf(5)
           https://www.eventd.org/
  Process: 8812 ExecStart=/usr/bin/eventd --listen systemd --system (code=exited, status=217/USER)
 Main PID: 8812 (code=exited, status=217/USER)

Feb 26 16:07:50 noctis systemd[1]: Starting eventd...
Feb 26 16:07:50 noctis systemd[8812]: eventd.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
Feb 26 16:07:50 noctis systemd[8812]: eventd.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/bin/eventd: No such >
Feb 26 16:07:50 noctis systemd[1]: eventd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
Feb 26 16:07:50 noctis systemd[1]: eventd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 26 16:07:50 noctis systemd[1]: Failed to start eventd.
sardemff7 commented 6 years ago

Do you really want to run eventd system instance? If you do, you need to either create an eventd user or change the user in the unit (via a drop-in file, do not touch the installed unit files). If you don’t, or if you don’t know, then see systemctl --user.

AhmedAA commented 6 years ago

Hmm.. I tried reading up on it, I am sorry if I misunderstood something. I am trying to use eventd as a local notification service. Running it in my .xinitrc with a eventd & line works fine. I am basically trying to achieve the same as just running it like that.

Again sorry if I overlooked something, and thank you very much for your time!

AhmedAA commented 6 years ago

Urgh, I am so sorry for wasting your time..

To anyone else who might happen to find this in the future: run systemctl --user enable eventd and systemctl --user start eventd

I guess I need to read up on some documentation..

sardemff7 commented 6 years ago

No time wasted, I’ll add some more verbosity in the man page. eventd is a user service, using systemctl alone is for system services.

If you have an user instance of systemd running, then enabling eventd is as simple as systemctl --user enable eventd. You actually should start the sockets eventd.socket and eventd-control.socket rather than eventd itself (or just restart your session so that systemd does it).

sardemff7 commented 6 years ago

Added a man page note in 9d41cbf98aaec531ffee06de856bc164f080c79e.

AhmedAA commented 6 years ago

@sardemff7 more explicit now at least :)

cheers for your help!

and btw i really like the idea with this.. very nice work you have done! (i got inspired from this, should be interested :) https://github.com/p3lim/dotfiles)