systemd service not found

Question

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

is the file permission and ownership has to do until I read the man pages. — Ciasto piekarz, Nov 23 '19 at 16:50

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 23 '19 at 17:25

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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.

answered Nov 23 '19 at 17:25

ajgringo619

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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. – Ciasto piekarz Nov 23 '19 at 17:44
If you move your files to the directory I posted, you won't need to use symlinks. – ajgringo619 Nov 23 '19 at 18:05
gives me permission denied error while trying to rsync – Ciasto piekarz Nov 23 '19 at 18:10
Run mkdir -p $HOME/.config/systemd/user; mv /etc/systemd/user/* $HOME/.config/systemd/user, then systemctl enable --user photon_uploader. – ajgringo619 Nov 23 '19 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. – Ciasto piekarz Nov 23 '19 at 18:16
What does ls -l $HOME/.config/systemd/user show? – ajgringo619 Nov 23 '19 at 18:19
Let us continue this discussion in chat. – ajgringo619 Nov 23 '19 at 18:20
$ ls systemd/user/ multi-user.target.wants photon_uploader.env photon_uploader.service photon_uploader.socket – Ciasto piekarz Nov 23 '19 at 18:20

systemd service not found

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