Starting a service or application at startup

 Even though urbackup instructions say to put the following line into your /etc/rc.local file:

  • Add /usr/bin/urbackupsrv run –daemon to your /etc/rc.local to start the UrBackup server on server start-up.

it seems Arch uses systemd, so the thing to do is put your command in

 

/etc/systemd/system

 

You may find it already exists:

sudo systemctl list-unit-files --type-service

 

Here's the reference if you need to create one:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/471824/what-is-the-correct-substitute-for-rc-local-in-systemd-instead-of-re-creating-rc

https://www.howtogeek.com/687970/how-to-run-a-linux-program-at-startup-with-systemd/

 

 

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