systemd & Service Management

Summary

The modern init system managing services (starting, stopping, restarting, enabling on boot) on most Linux distributions — understanding unit files and systemctl is essential for running any long-lived process reliably.

• 1Practice starting, stopping, and checking the status of a service with systemctl.
• 2Write a simple custom systemd unit file for a script you want to run as a service.
• 3Learn to enable a service to start automatically on boot.