On Sunday, 3 May 2020 06:28:11 PDT jose...@posteo.net wrote:
> Hello all!!
>
> I'm sorry if my question is terribly simple but I'm a new debian
> user. I have always been an archlinux user but now I've decided to
> give debian buster a try.
>
> Everything is working smoothly except offlineimap. Actually I works
> well, the problem is that I can't start the systemd service.
>
> I've tried like this:
>
> systemctl --user start offlineimap
> Failed to start offlineimap.service: Unit offlineimap.service not
> found.
>
> You can see that the service is not found. I have also tried starting
> with socket activation but it is the same.
>
> Is there anything obvious I'm not seeing?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Jose.
Hello Jose
If you look at list of files in offlineimap package in Archlinux[1] and
compare the same with Debian [2] you will notice that Archlinux installs
some unit files in:
usr/lib/systemd/user/offlineimap-oneshot.service
usr/lib/systemd/user/offlineimap-oneshot.timer
usr/lib/systemd/user/offlineimap-oneshot@.service
usr/lib/systemd/user/offlineimap-oneshot@.timer
usr/lib/systemd/user/offlineimap.service
usr/lib/systemd/user/offlineimap@.service
while Debian does not. So `systemctl --user` is looking for unit files in
specific locations and it does not find one.
Debian installs these unit files to examples directory:
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/systemd/README.md
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/systemd/offlineimap-oneshot.service
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/systemd/offlineimap-oneshot.timer
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/systemd/offlineimap-oneshot@.service
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/systemd/offlineimap-oneshot@.timer
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/systemd/offlineimap.service
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/systemd/offlineimap@.service
Check out Archlinux' wiki page [3] about systemd and user configurations.
I think all you need to do is to copy one of the example unit files to the
location where systemd expects it. But definitely give
/usr/share/doc/offlineimap/examples/systemd/README.md
a read
[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/offlineimap/
[2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/offlineimap/filelist
[3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/User
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Ihor Antonov
