SystemD Pilot is a desktop application for managing systemd services on GNU/linux machines. The app is very lightweight and supports common tasks such as starting and stopping systemd services.
It can also show detailed status for each service.
Features: List services
Filter by running state
Start, Stop, Restart, Enable and Disable services + show status for each service
Create override configuration for any unit file using the edit button
Option for reloading systemd manager configuration (systemctl daemon-reload)
Easy search. Just start typing and the app will find relevant services
Lightweight
Available for download as deb, rpm and AppImage
Integration into GNOME desktop (libadwaita)
Made with love for the FOSS community. Please give it a try and share your thoughts.
Some other projects for the same usage:
https://github.com/KDE/systemdgenie
https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/systemd-manager
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Aren’t those defunct? I was looking for examples of exactly this a while back and none of them were being actively maintained.
I use Systemd-Manager since a long time now and it worked always well. But it could well be, that it is unmaintained…
Oooh this will be perfect for a bunch of stuff I do.
Can you create new services or do you still need to create the .service file manually?
What about .timer files?
I’ve been thinking about a “create new service” feature but I’m not sure about two things: 1.how useful it can be 2.how to implement this to actually make life easier for end users
Adding a generic template would not be difficult.
I would absolutely use it. In fact creating and editing services would be the primary selling point IMO. It doesn’t need to be much “easier” than doing it in the terminal or file explorer, to me the primary benefit would just be the ease of use of creating, loading, and starting a new service all in one place.
I think a generic template would be great.
You could turn the whole thing into a giant GUI settings screen, allowing navigation to an exectuable, after which you could provide some of the most typical options as sliders, number fields, switches, or whatever is suitable. But that would be a large amount of work, and I’m not sure it would simplify things much.
The starting point should just be a text field, but with a link to the service file docs for help/reference.
Brilliant thanks for your feedback and thoughts. Will look into this.
Just having something that shows the field options and formats it correctly would be fantastic. Tooltips and all that could be added later to lower the bar of entry for new users.
Making life easier for end users means more documentation about what you are doing. I mean that’s the main difference between Commandline and a GUI.
Oh look Avahi Service, let’s stop it, what does it mean to stop it.
Creating a new Service, sure but what is needed, are there examples? Formfill lines with a hint what’s needed, maybe some dropdown entries?
You got what I mean.
Didn’t know Pedro pascal was a coder
Nice i will try it out.
Thanks :) Hope you find it useful
can it do mask/unmask?
Not in this version. I’ll add that and more for the next release.
cool!
Any chance this lands in the AUR?
I’ve not used arch for years but I’ll look into this.
Looks neat, does its job.
If you’re a power-user looking at this, you can also look at https://github.com/rgwood/systemctl-tui which is somewhat similar but seems to be more useful (for now), also showing the service logs and being easily navigable with a keyboard.
Does it support per-user systemd services?
It will, in the next release.
Awesome, Flatpak?
Yes flatpak will be realesed too.
Thanks for this! Works pretty well when testing -
Really cool bro. Always loved GUI for command line utils!
Cool. I have been using the built in YAST2 GUI services on OpenSUSE. But for other machines COCKPIT webgui uses systems to view and manage services.
I miss the days before SystemD, it seemed simpler.
Autoexec.bat or bust!
I am running a headless server, but still want to make managing my systemd services easier. Any recommendations? I think I’m looking for something that is to
systemdwhathtopis totop🤔EDIT: Thanks for all the recs!
I know you asked for cli apps, and maybe you have already heard of it, but in case you haven’t, cockpit is a pretty nice web UI for managing your server (not just systemd services, but everything)
I remember there being a KCM for Plasma Settings that did this sort of thing.
Yes i think it’s called systemdGenie
