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I will confess. I started writing this post about some stupid systemd tricks. However, I wanted to explain a little about systemd first, and that wound up being longer than the tricks. So this Linux ...

A vast majority of Linux systems these days are using systemd – a suite of programs aimed at managing and interconnecting different parts of the system. Systemd started replacing the init process back ...

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This is on CentOS 7. The behavior seems idiotic, so I assume the problem is me not understanding something basic. FWIW, this is with both services in question installed but not yet enabled.

I have several Podman containers running via systemd services generated by 'podman generate systemd --new'. They work well, the unit files are easy to read and they are quite portable and easy to use, ...