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systemd for Linux SysAdmins: All You Need to Know About the systemd Suite for Linux Users
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systemd for Linux SysAdmins: All You Need to Know About the systemd Suite for Linux Users

by David Both
May 2025
Beginner to intermediate
447 pages
7h 18m
English
Apress
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© The Author(s), under exclusive license to APress Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2025
D. Bothsystemd for Linux SysAdminshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1328-3_3

3. Understanding Linux Startup with systemd

David Both1  
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
 

Objectives

In this chapter, you will learn

  • The files and tools that manage the Linux startup sequence

  • How to change the default startup target (runlevel in SystemV terms)

  • How to manually switch to a different target without going through a reboot

  • To use the systemctl command, which is the primary means of interacting with and sending commands to systemd

  • To use journalctl, which provides access to the systemd journals that contain huge amounts of system history data such as kernel and service messages (both informational ...

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