Systemd.user.services

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Trying to put my script/binary into a service does not work properly.

systemd.user.services.datensicherung = {
  enable = true;
  after = [ "network.target" ];
  wantedBy = [ "default.target" ];
  description = "Datensicherung";
  serviceConfig = {
      Type = "simple";
      ExecStart = ''/home/xxx/datensicherung'';
  };
};

Starting the script/binary (/home/xxx/datensicherung) manually works fine.

Starting the script/binary via service does not write to the external disk (/run/media/datensicherung/), but writing the logs to the local disk (/home/xxx/) works.

2

so how do you mount the external disk? after logging in?
may you include some kind of logging into your script and then check what’s exactly wrong

systemctl --user start datensicherung.service

systemctl --user status datensicherung.service

journalctl --user -xeu datensicherung.service

3

When the script is started by systemd it runs in a completely different (empty) environment compared to your login shell.

You need to add the packages you need to systemd.user.services.<name>.path, define environment variables with systemd.user.services.<name>.environment, etc.

Also, note that network.target does not exist for user services.

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