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Spammy
Asked: 2020-07-05 10:32:13 +0800 CST

Systemd Timer Template after boot?

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I have a templated timer that calls a templated unit. I use the following to enable and start them:

sudo systemctl enable [email protected]
sudo systemctl enable ping@service
sudo systemctl start [email protected]

This works as expected, and the timer activates [email protected] as expected. However this doesn't persist after reboots, presumably because I didn't enable the instance of the timer. But the following fails with a "does not exist" error:

sudo systemctl enable [email protected]

How can I have a templated timer start at each boot?

systemd systemd-service

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  1. Best Answer

    Error was with me - the "trick" is to use two enables on the timer:

    sudo systemctl enable [email protected]
sudo systemctl enable ping@service
sudo systemctl enable [email protected]

    I was getting an error as I was trying to enable the instance of the timer before the template.

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