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I have installed arch recently and added a few of my own services, for example the acpi_call commands and such. Now I want to create a systemd service that runs every 5 minutes and execute a script.

I searched a lot and I found that I must use timers. I got the thing with the timers working, but because my script has to do with a specific user, I want it to run only every 5 minutes when i am logged in as that user.

I tried to put the files in /etc/systemd/users, .config/local/users and all the possibilities but everytime i want to enable it, it says dbus connection refused.

Can somebody please provide me a way to execute a systemd service every 5 minutes while I am logged in as a specific user?

thanks!

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  • You need to run the D-Bus server as a service for user sessions... Commented Mar 23, 2015 at 17:56
  • I did, i followed the wiki but it didn't work. I keep getting the same dbus connection refused error Commented Mar 23, 2015 at 17:56
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    Then you need to look at the output of systemctl status for both services to determine what is not working... Commented Mar 23, 2015 at 18:08
  • My dbus is running. Checked it with the systemctl status dbus.socket so there is nothing wrong with that. Whenever i place the system services in ~/.config/systemd/user, and i enable it with systemctl --user enable servicename.timer, it just gives the erro message again Commented Mar 23, 2015 at 18:25

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You need to put the service and timer files in .config/systemd/user/ of the user you are targeting.

Log in as that user and enable and start it with: systemctl --user enable unit_name.timer etc.

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