A vast majority of Linux systems these days are using systemd – a suite of programs aimed at managing and interconnecting different parts of the system. Systemd started replacing the init process back ...

Microsoft and Canonical have teamed up to add systemd support to the Windows Subsystem for Linux, allowing a larger number of compatible apps to be installed. systemd is a Linux software application ...

If you're a Windows administrator with a few Linux servers, or a new administrator starting out on Linux, you need to learn how to start, stop and check services. Recent changes have made Linux ...

Manage headless AI Gateways on Windows with Scheduled Tasks, hidden launchers, WSL2, systemd, and user lingering for reliable ...

I will confess. I started writing this post about some stupid systemd tricks. However, I wanted to explain a little about systemd first, and that wound up being longer than the tricks. So this Linux ...

If you serve as an admin over Linux systems, one tool that you’ll fall back on daily is systemctl. Jack Wallen shows you how easy it is to list services with this command. Linux is an incredibly ...

The systemctl command has some frequently overlooked functionality. In addition to starting and stopping Linux services, you can list the installed services, and check what state they’re in. Here’s a ...

It was an ugly fight at times. On one side you had Ubuntu favoring its Upstart program to replace the old Unix/Linux init daemon, which oversees the operating system's start-up and shutdown processes.

Jack Wallen walks you through everything you need to know about masked services in Linux. Have you ever gone to start or stop a service in Linux using the systemctl command only to see a warning such ...