systemctl list-unit-files does not show my service

When I execute systemctl list-unit-files does not show my service command it does not show my service (called example). What can be the reason of that?

init.d file location:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/example

service files:

/run/systemd/
/run/systemd/
/run/systemd/
/run/systemd/
/run/systemd/

.Service file:

# Automatically generated by systemd-sysv-generator
[Unit]
Documentation=man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
SourcePath=/etc/rc.d/init.d/example
Description=SYSV: Application Suite
Before=runlevel2.target
Before=runlevel3.target
Before=runlevel4.target
Before=runlevel5.target
After=network-online.target
After=network.service
[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=no
TimeoutSec=5min
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
KillMode=process
GuessMainPID=no
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/example start

1 Answer

Use systemctl list-unit instead, it will show all loaded (active) units, including those generated.

The list-unit-files only works for the actual installed unit files. To debug the generated ones looking at the /run directory is I guess fine. Alternatively you can use systemctl show example.service to see the in-memory properties, which has some overlap with the unit files.

BTW, for a given unit name, you can use systemctl is-enabled <name> -l to see if it is „generated“, or where it is statically installed.