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I'm trying to setup user level Services(Python/Java/Node JS Processes) which need to run all the time, until I stop explicitly. The service need to be start/stopped as non root user.

I've created service file under, ~/.config/systemd/user/. When I tried to load, systemctl --user daemon-reload, it's failing with the following error.

$ systemctl --user daemon-reload
Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory

I understand D-Bus won't run without Desktop session, but there is no Desktop session, it's one of the VMs provided by the Company. We don't enable Desktop sessions for the Linux servers.

$ ps -ef | grep systemd | grep -v grep
root          1      0  0 Jul25 ?        00:01:33 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd --switched-root --system --deserialize 22
root        544      1  0 Jul25 ?        00:00:33 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
root        591      1  0 Jul25 ?        00:00:03 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
dbus        783      1  0 Jul25 ?        00:01:21 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation
root        857      1  0 Jul25 ?        00:00:34 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-logind

How do I create user level services without Desktop session ?

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It will work with just two commands.

cat << 'EOF' >> ~USERNAME/.profile
export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u)
EOF
loginctl enable-linger $USERNAME
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  • thanks for the quick response. $ export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) [root@myserver system]# loginctl enable-linger zeus $ ls /var/lib/systemd/linger/$USERNAME zeus Still, fails. $ systemctl --user daemon-reload Failed to get D-Bus connection: No such file or directory Commented Jul 31, 2022 at 3:20
  • imgur.com/L95Qx7p Tried your solution @crpb, but it didn't work. Commented Jul 31, 2022 at 3:28
  • hmm.. so no session is running for that user? i created one and it started w/o login. "testuser 469295 0.0 0.0 15396 7252 ? Ss 05:32 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd --user" Commented Jul 31, 2022 at 3:53
  • Jul 31 05:32:33 intra2 useradd[469176]: new group: name=testuser, GID=2006 Jul 31 05:32:33 intra2 useradd[469176]: new user: name=testuser, UID=2006, GID=2006, home=/home/testuser, shell=/bin/zsh, from=/dev/pts/0 Jul 31 05:32:45 intra2 systemd: pam_unix(systemd-user:session): session opened for user testuser(uid=2006) by (uid=0) Commented Jul 31, 2022 at 3:53
  • And as for the "applications.services". i usually just create those in another folder and enable this file with that user when everything is setup. Commented Jul 31, 2022 at 3:59

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