linux user service won't start after reboot

[garychen]

I had already set up the user service, and Sync can be started with "systemctl --user start resilio-sync"

"systemctl --user enable resilio-sync" also done.

But Sync won't start automatically after reboot. I have to manually start Sync.

I tried to put "systemctl --user start resilio-sync" in crontab but it won't start ether.

 

OS: Linux Mint 22 x86_64, Kernel: 6.8.0-45-generic

[eltopo]

Check the log (using systemctl status / journalctl) and find out the reason why resilio sync service failed to start.

If you are using USB device(s) as resilio sync's storage, you may need to wait the drive(s) get fully mounted before starting the service.

If you are sure that after 1 minute the service can be started successfully, you can use a systemd timer unit for resilio sync's service with

OnBootSec=60

see: systemd.timer

By the way, executing "systemctl start" as a cron job is NOT the right place to properly start a systemd service.

[garychen]

Add delay in "/usr/lib/systemd/user/resilio-sync.service" solve the problem.

Thanks.

[garychen]

I tried this on another linux mint machine and found that you also need to change "WantedBy=multi-user.target" to "WantedBy=default.target" in "/usr/lib/systemd/user/resilio-sync.service".