Systemctl Status Shows Inactive Dead

systemctl status shows inactive dead

• You have set Type=Forking, but your service doesn't work. Try
Type=oneshot
• You have a "&" your ExecStart line, which is not necessary.
• The service is disabled, which means it was not enabled to start at boot. You should run systemctl enable hello to set it to start at boot.

You can check man systemd.directives to find an index of all the directives that you can use in your unit files.

Systemctl status shows Succeeded, but service is inactive

Your program was started successfully and it terminated directly.

To have your service active, it needs to keep running. Example:

#!/usr/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]; do
    echo Hi > /tmp/test1
    date >> /tmp/test1
    sleep 60
done

Systemd service is inactive (dead), but only after many weeks

SystemD Restart-Always is not meant to be a loop. It's about failure-handling.

RTFM on StartLimitBurst

Raspberry Pi Auto-start Executable with Systemd, Loaded but Inactive (Dead)

Systemd is not designed for programs with console interaction. It's designed for background services or tasks to run on system events.

As such unless you use redirection in your bash script std::cin will not be connected to anything (let alone a terminal - which terminal should it use anyways?).

If you're going to run a chat server as a background service, make the part without user interaction the service executable. For example, the service need only accept input via network connections and optionally write additional output to a file (such as logging) .

If the program should read some thing like configuration from standard input, use input redirection to read it from a file instead.

systemctl short status output format for specific service

You can try systemctl is-active sshd.service, systemctl is-enabled sshd.service and systemctl is-failed sshd.service.

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