Systemctl shows service file Not Found even though .service file is present

Hi All, I’m writing a step by step setup for a self hosted gitea instance (on CentOS 7) and hit the stupidest bug (if you can call it that) of systemd. After writing the gitea service file I was getting the following error: 1 2 [root@gitea ~]# systemctl start giteaselfhost Failed to start giteaselfhost.service: Unit not found. After a few hours of maddening permission checks and debugging, the problem was that I had a Requires dependency to a service file that wasn’t there....

17 June, 2019 · 1 min · 104 words · Alexandru Bucur