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[rugk]

The issue here is that if you add the service to /etc/systemd/system/ it will run on the system bus and as root, because podman generate systemd does not add a User= key to the systemd file.

This of course defeats a big purpose of podman, rootless containers.

I'm not quite sure how to best handle that…
You could add it as a user service to $HOME/.config/systemd/user, but that's also inconvenient as you need to start a new systemd session. It's possible, but maybe a simple User= in the service would be better,

[johnwmail]

Hi @rugk, I add this to user systemd , but it does not start on boot, until the user logged in

[rugk]

You can enable systemd user lingering AFAIK so that the user does not need to login. https://serverfault.com/q/846441/350103

[johnwmail]

[johnw@cdn1b ~]$ loginctl list-users
UID USER
0 root
1000 johnw
30000 _podman

3 users listed.
[johnw@cdn1b ~]$ sudo loginctl enable-linger _podman
Could not enable linger: No such process

Anyway, I found the way to start it up on boot with cron.d, thanks.

[johnw@cdn1b ~]$ cat /etc/cron.d/podman

podman

@reboot _podman /usr/bin/podman start php-fpm &

[rugk]

sudo loginctl enable-linger _podman
Could not enable linger: No such process

I guess you actually executed sudo loginctl enable linger _podman did not you? No space there, a hyphen… 🙃

[johnwmail]

sudo loginctl enable-linger _podman
Could not enable linger: No such process

I guess you actually executed sudo loginctl enable linger _podman did not you? No space there, a hyphen… upside_down_face

No, I executed this