Re: systemd: How to get suricata started at boot?

[Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com>]

On 03-05-17, Hans wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have installed suricata on my system, but it will not start at boot.
> 
> When I manually start it, it is working well.
> 
> As the document advises, I copied  /lib/systemd/system/suricata.service to 
> /etc/systemd/system/suricata.service and tested with
> 
> systemctl start suricata.service
> 
> "ps -aux | grep suricata" showed me the running process. But after reboot, the 
> process is not started automatically. As init is no more supported by 
> suricata, but systemd, how can I add this service into systemd, so that it is 
> started automatically at boot? I am still not quite experienced with systemd.
> 
> Thanks for any hints.
> 
> Best
> 
> Hans
> 
> 

Short answer:

#systemctl enable suricata.service

Bit longer answers and something that you should read:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-systemctl-to-manage-systemd-services-and-units

http://linoxide.com/linux-command/systemd-vs-sysvinit-cheatsheet/

https://dynacont.net/documentation/linux/Useful_SystemD_commands/