Recently when I created the Qutipi linux distribution I had to select between the old-fashioned sysvinit and systemd. After a bit of research I decided to take the punt and use systemd. I choose systemd over sysvinit for a range of reasons such as the tooling is better (systemctl etc), greater error logging / reporting, more control over service groups etc.
I wrote a short post on using systemd mainly to jump-start people using QutiPi.
Overview
Systemd provides the base building blocks for a linux distribution, which allows bootstrapping of the user space and manages system processes.
Updating Service File
Systemd uses system files to determine how services are configured. These are located at /lib/systemd/system for Qutipi distro
You can modify any of these services, for example:
nano /lib/systemd/system/application-loader.service
Afterward i suggest running
systemctl daemon-reloadsystemctl restart application-loader
View Service’s Status
See the status of running services by running the below
systemctl status
See all systemd logs
Viewing logs for systemd event can be helpful to debug problems, for example to view all logs run
journalctl
Or we can tail the logs
journalctl -f
Or just show logs for one service
journalctl -u application-loader.service