SysD Manager

This application exists to easily allow user to manage their systemd units via a GUI. Not only are you able to make changes to the enablement and running status of each of the units, but you will also be able to view and modify their unit files and check the journal logs.

Disclaimer

This application is not intended to a profesional system administrator audience.

If you consider yourself an administator, please refer to systemctl and journalctl documentation.

Features

Here are Sysd Manager main features :

• Unit file browser with serach and filtering
• Enable or disable a unit
• Activate or desactivate a unit
• View and modify unit file
• Unit file syntax highlighting
• Journal file syntax highlighting
• List of all running units, ordered by the time they took to initialize systemd-analyze blame
• Follow Dark and Light style switching

Note if you need a feature communicate with the author or contribute to the project. If you're stuck take a look at systemctl.

Requirement

Any Linux distribution that has adopted systemd.

Screenshots

Credit

This project is inspired by the work of Guillaume Gomez https://github.com/GuillaumeGomez/systemd-manager/

Contributing

Contact me on my GitHub if you want to contribute to this project.

Project Roadmap

For now new features are planned to be added, such as:

• Non-blocking calls (in progress)
• Always administrator mode
• Improve UX
  • Better layout

Installation Instructions

From your computer

• Download and install rust https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
• Install the build essentials
  • Install GTK 4 and the build essentials. how-to
  • Install libadwaita how-to
• Compile and install cargo install sysd-manager
• Run sysd-manager

Install on RHEL, Fedora, and CentOS based distributions

You can install the application from COPR

Add the repo

First, you need to have dnf-plugins-core installed

sudo dnf install dnf-plugins-core

Then you can enable the repo with the following command

sudo dnf copr enable plrigaux/sysd-manager

Install with dnf

Then you can simply install sysd-manager with the following command

sudo dnf install sysd-manager

Generate RPM for COPR

1 be in the mock group Add your user name to the mock group

sudo usermod -a -G mock <my user name>

Generate a RPM locally

You can generate your rpm locally with the help of the crate cargo-generate-rpm.

Install

cargo install cargo-generate-rpm

Usage

cargo build --release
strip -s target/release/sysd-manager
cargo generate-rpm

Install with dnf

Then you can install sysd-manager with the following command

Don't forget to ajust the the rpm file path

sudo dnf localinstall target/generate-rpm/sysd-manager[version-release-arch].rpm

Setup

cargo install cargo-generate-rpm

Usage

Run the following script.

sh ./create_rpm

It will create a rpm file in the target/generate-rpm subdirectory.

Flatpak

SysD Manager can be build as a flatpak, but the flatpak version has limitations that can be overcome.

The limitation are :

• can't display journal
• Can't save the unit file

The application discloses how to overcome those limitations.

Install the builder

flatpak install org.flatpak.Builder

Build the flatpak

./goflatub build

Run the flatpak

To run the compiled flatpak execute the following command

./goflatub run

To access all program's functionnalities, you need the to have program flatpak-spawn install on your system.

Possible issue

No remote refs found for ‘flathub’

flatpak remote-add --user --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

APT

Later waiting for a contributor or when I will reinstall e Debian like distro

Testing

If you want to test Sysd Manager without risking to shutdown impotant services, you can do it with tiny_daemon. tiny_daemon is a service provided with the project as a simple web server that you can safely play with.

To install tiny_daemon, in the project directory, just run this python script.

python install_tiny 

or if install_tiny is executable (i.e. chmod +x install_tiny)

./install_tiny