Managing Services & Reading journalctl Logs

systemd is the default init system on modern Ubuntu and Debian distributions. Use systemctl to control services and journalctl to inspect logs.

Service Control

sudo systemctl status cron
sudo systemctl enable --now myservice
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Inspecting & Cleaning Logs

journalctl -u myservice -n 50 --no-pager
journalctl -p err -b
sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=200M

Download systemd-template.service