RHEL8: Enabling lingering for remote users or local users with a remote home directory doesn't do anything
Issue
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After enabling lingering for a user and rebooting, the user's services are not executing automatically and
systemd --user
instance shows no service at allmyuser$ systemctl --user status test No files found for test.service.
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The user needs to reload the
systemd --user
instance for services to be seenmyuser$ systemctl --user daemon-reload myuser$ systemctl --user status test ○ test.service [...]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
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