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Endi S. Dewata edited this page Sep 14, 2023 · 1 revision

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Service

To list services: 

$ systemctl list-units --type=service

To start a service: 

$ systemctl start <name>.service

To stop a service: 

$ systemctl stop <name>.service

To check service status: 

$ systemctl status <name>.service

To reload systemd configuration: 

$ systemctl daemon-reload

Journal

The global systemd journal configuration is located at /etc/systemd/journald.conf.

To restrict the journal size to 100 MB: 

[Journal]
SystemMaxUse=100M

Then restart the systemd journal service: 

$ systemctl restart systemd-journald

To view systemd journal for a PKI instance: 

$ journalctl -u pki-tomcatd@<instance>.service

To clear systemd journals except for the last 2 days: 

$ journalctl --vacuum-time=2d

To clear systemd journals except for the last 100 MB: 

$ journalctl --vacuum-size=100M

Password 

$ systemd-ask-password --keyname=nssdb --accept-cached "NSS database password:"
NSS database password: **********
Secret.123

$ keyctl search @u user nssdb @s
576612158

$ keyctl print %user:nssdb
Secret.123

Notifications

To notify that the service is ready: 

$ systemd-notify --pid=<PID> --ready

Troubleshooting

If PKI service fails to start with the following error: 

Starting PKI Tomcat Server pki-tomcat...
pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service: Failed at step USER spawning /usr/sbin/pki-server: No such process
pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service: Control process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
pki-tomcatd@pki-tomcat.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Failed to start PKI Tomcat Server pki-tomcat.

execute the following command: 

$ systemctl daemon-reexec

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