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Systemd

systemd.unit

systemd.service

A unit configuration file whose name ends in .service encodes information about a process controlled and supervised by systemd.

systemd.automount

A unit configuration file whose name ends in .automount encodes information about a file system automount point controlled and supervised by systemd. Automount units may be used to implement on-demand mounting as well as parallelized mounting of file systems. For each automount unit file a matching mount unit file (see systemd.mount(5) for details) must exist which is activated when the automount path is accessed.

systemd.mount

A unit configuration file whose name ends in .mount encodes information about a file system mount point controlled and supervised by systemd.

systemd.timer

A unit configuration file whose name ends in .timer encodes information about a timer controlled and supervised by systemd, for timer-based activation.