systemctl-tui

A fast, simple TUI for interacting with systemd services and their logs.

systemctl-tui can quickly browse service status and logs, and start/stop/restart services. It aims to do a small number of things well.

Install

Note: this project only works on Linux (WSL works if you have systemd enabled). Binaries are published for x64 and ARM64 in the GitHub releases, and a Nix package is available.

If you'd rather build from scratch you will need Rust installed. Then either:

1. Run cargo install systemctl-tui
2. Clone the repo and run cargo build --release to get a release binary at target/release/systemctl-tui

Optional:

1. Alias systemctl-tui to st for quick access
2. Create a symlink so systemctl-tui can be used with sudo:

sudo ln -s ~/.cargo/bin/systemctl-tui /usr/bin/systemctl-tui

Help

Credits

• Inspired by the truly wonderful Lazygit
• sysz is so cool
• Used ratatui-template to get started
• systemd code partially taken from servicer