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.
Nice i will try it out.
Thanks :) Hope you find it useful
Thanks for this! Works pretty well when testing -
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.
As far as i can tell a full gui for systemd service files would be practically impossible. But a template ui would be sick, maybe something like an app autostart template could look like this:
Program: Launch options: When: early/normal/login/graphical-start Restart: never/once/alwaysJust spitballing here though.
This was added to the latest version. You can now quickly start a new service from the app.
awesome! Tysm
Even if the new service is “just” a text field for code + the name of the service. If it saves it in the right location for you its useful. Not having to fiddle with that stuff as an end user is nice.
Done! Chack out the latest version.
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.
oh it’s not an official thing, that could probably use some more clarification as the name makes it sound like something developed by the systemd people
What license are you offering it under?
GPL v3.
Btw add license to the repo and license info to readme
Really cool bro. Always loved GUI for command line utils!
This is impressive I love to see another addition to the Libadwaita family
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.
Nice, thanks! So weird these tools are not commonly used - managing systemd remains one of the common terminal PITAs for everyone who doesn’t appreciate the Great Holy Terminal
Funny thing is, that there are many things I prefer the terminal for, but systemd deamons are not these things 😂
Fantastic, Linux needs tools like this for users who need to make occasional changes and inspect
systemd.For inspiration, I would suggest you also look at LaunchControl, which is a GUI tool to administer
launchdon macOS.There are some. COCKPIT would probably suit most people. OpenSUSE has a GUI Services tool built into YAST
Didn’t know Pedro pascal was a coder
Looks rad
NO! NO, I WON’T HAVE IT!
I will not give up my command line, obscure, non-obvious commands that control my machine!
It is an abomination that I don’t have to search for, and then wade through hundreds of AI generated pages of useless information just to show me what services are running with systemd!
I am seriously considering starting my own startup system. I am thinking I could initiate (init) runlevels to start subsystems at various stages. If anyone is interested, hit me up.
I can’t tell if you’re taking the piss or not about re-implementing initscripts.
can it do mask/unmask?
Not in this version. I’ll add that and more for the next release.
