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guettli
Asked: 2017-04-26 05:05:59 +0800 CST

loginctl enable-linger/disable-linger ... but reading linger-status?

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I know how to enable/disable lingering with loginctl.

But up to now I found no way to query the status of a user.

I want to know: Is lingering enable for user foo?

How can I access this information?

systemd

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can show a list of lingering users with

    ls /var/lib/systemd/linger

    because

    loginctl enable-linger $USER
loginctl disable-linger $USER

    do the equivalent of

    touch /var/lib/systemd/linger/$USER
rm /var/lib/systemd/linger/$USER
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  2. loginctl user-status foo shows linger status.

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  3. The best I found for check it in scripts (programmatically):

    loginctl show-user "$USER" --property=Linger | grep -q 'yes'
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