{"id":12791,"date":"2019-03-28T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=12791"},"modified":"2019-03-28T20:28:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T20:28:14","slug":"chkservice-an-easy-way-to-manage-systemd-units-in-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/03\/28\/chkservice-an-easy-way-to-manage-systemd-units-in-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Chkservice \u2013 An Easy Way to Manage Systemd Units in Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Systemd<\/strong>\u00a0(system daemon) is a modern system management daemon for Linux systems. Systemd is a\u00a0replacement for init system manager<\/a>; it controls system startup and services, and introduces the idea of units (managed via unit files) to identify different types of system resources such as services, devices, swap, automount, targets, paths, sockets and others.<\/p>\n

It ships in with\u00a0systemctl<\/strong>, a component for controlling systemd\u2019s behavior and units (starting, stopping, restarting, viewing status etc) using the command line. What if you simply want to manage units using keyboard shortcuts, that is where\u00a0chkservice<\/strong>\u00a0comes in.<\/p>\n

Read Also<\/strong>:\u00a0How to Manage \u2018Systemd\u2019 Services and Units Using \u2018Systemctl\u2019 in Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

Chkservice<\/strong>\u00a0is an easy-to-use, ncurses-based command line tool for managing systemd units on a terminal. It lists units alphabetically under the categories (services, targets, automounts etc), showing the their status and description, and allows you, with superuser privileges to start, stop, enable and disable units.<\/p>\n

Install chkservice in Linux Systems<\/h3>\n

On\u00a0Debian<\/strong>\u00a0and its derivatives,\u00a0chkservice<\/strong>\u00a0can be easily installed using its own PPA as shown.<\/p>\n

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:linuxenko\/chkservice\r\n$ sudo apt-get update\r\n$ sudo apt-get install chkservice\r\n<\/pre>\n
On\u00a0Fedora<\/strong>\u00a0Linux distributions.<\/p>\n
# dnf copr enable srakitnican\/default\r\n# dnf install chkservice\r\n<\/pre>\n
On\u00a0Arch Linux<\/strong>\u00a0distribution.<\/p>\n
# git clone https:\/\/aur.archlinux.org\/chkservice.git\r\n# cd chkservice\r\n# makepkg -si\r\n<\/pre>\n
On other Linux distributions, you can build the release version using following commands.<\/p>\n
# git clone https:\/\/github.com\/linuxenko\/chkservice.git\r\n# mkdir build\r\n# cd build\r\n# cmake ..\/\r\n# make\r\n<\/pre>\n
Once you have installed\u00a0chkservice<\/strong>, launch it with root privileges using the\u00a0sudo command<\/a>. It\u2019s output consists of four columns, the first showing enabled\/disabled\/masked status, the second showing started\/stopped status, unit name\/type and last column is the unit description.<\/p>\n
$ sudo chkservice\r\n<\/pre>\n
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\"chkservice<\/p>\n
chkservice for Managing Systemd Services<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Chksericve unit status information:<\/p>\n