illtellyoulater
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1 year ago Ok I think the correct way to do this for a service installed with webinstall by a regular user within their home dir, is to leave untouched the original serviceman command:
env PATH="$PATH" serviceman add --user --name syncthing -- syncthing --home ~/.config/syncthing/
and then, agin from the user shell do:
loginctl enable-linger $USER
which enables user lingering as explained here https://mycorrhiza.wiki/hypha/systemd_101 meaning user services will keep running even when the user is not connected, making it work similarly, I guess, to a system service.
Can someone confirm this is ok? If so, please consider addng it to https://webinstall.dev/syncthing/ as I'm certain it would save quite a few headaches...
coolaj86
At https://webinstall.dev/syncthing/ the serviceman command used to create a Syncthing service for the current user is:
env PATH="$PATH" serviceman add --user --name syncthing -- syncthing --home ~/.config/syncthing/How can I modify the above line to create a service for starting Syncthing at system startup independently of users logging in? Would that simply become:
env PATH="$PATH" serviceman add --system --name syncthing -- syncthing --home ~/.config/syncthing/Yes I am aware this would (if correct) start the specifc Syncthing instance installed by the user below their home dir, but I would be fine with that. Btw, what's the meaning of
PATH="$PATH"?