[SOLVED] New to ArchLinux, auto starting daemons?

[nellson]

I have googled a bit, and started finding out a bit about this systemd deal for managing daemons.. I am a Gentoo Linux user mostly, but the PogoPlug 4 looked easiest to use with Arch Linux.

I got my SMBD/NMBD all set up, and could start them with systemctl start smbd (etc) but to get them to start in a run level script.. I was seeing reference to /etc/rc.conf which I do not have to put in a "daemons" variable....

Can someone point me at the how to for this? (and how I might find how services that are started like sshd got to be that way?... grepping through /etc didn't yield any clues.

Nick

[moonman]

Systemctl enable <service> will enable the service to start on boot. Archwiki is a good start to start learning about systemd, specificallu systemd section. Just google "archwiki systemd". As matter of fact you can find information of about every package, including how start and enable the service

[nellson]

Oh perfect, so it is a function of the systemctl command... I will work with that!

[root@alarm ~]# systemctl enable smbd
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/smbd.service'

Hey!! Looky here, the path and process is echoed back to me, this is great, now I have a feel for what is happening here!

Much appreciated!

Nick