Todd Zullinger <[email protected]> wrote: > [-- text/plain, size 1.2K, charset us-ascii, 37 lines, encoding > quoted-printable --] > > Chris Green wrote: > > This is more out of interest than necessity but I'd like to know where > > systemd-logind.service stores its persistent data. E.g. in particular > > when I run 'loginctl enaable-linger chris' where is the required flag > > set? > > > > It must be a persistent location as 'enable-linger' obviously survives > > a reboot, but I just can't find where it is. > > > > There is a sort of reason for wanting to know this, I want to backup > > the information so that if/when I rebuild a system it doesn't get > > lost. At present I just have a note to myself in my configuration > > repository that 'loginctl enable-linger chris' needs to be run on a > > couple of systems but it would be nicer if I could automate it. > > AFAIK it simply touches /var/lib/systemd/linger/$USER: > > [test@trixie ~]$ loginctl show-user "$USER" --property=Linger > Linger=no > [test@trixie ~]$ ls /var/lib/systemd/linger/ > [test@trixie ~]$ > > [test@trixie ~]$ loginctl enable-linger > [test@trixie ~]$ loginctl show-user "$USER" --property=Linger > Linger=yes > [test@trixie ~]$ ls /var/lib/systemd/linger/ > test > > [test@trixie ~]$ loginctl disable-linger > [test@trixie ~]$ loginctl show-user "$USER" --property=Linger > Linger=no > [test@trixie ~]$ ls /var/lib/systemd/linger/ > [test@trixie ~]$ > Yes! Thank you.
I'd dug around in /var/lib/systemd/ but I hadn't spotted the 'linger' directory, it's an obvious way to do it though. -- Chris Green ยท
