Understanding service unit files

We now have a good idea of where to find service unit files, as well as how to enable and disable services.

Previously, we touched on a couple of the entries within a unit file, though we haven't gone into much depth on these options or where to find more information and alternative entries you might want to use.

How to do it...

We're going to use sshd.service as an example here, not just because it's a service file you might see a lot, but because it has a good mixture of default entries.

cat our chosen service:

$ systemctl cat sshd.service
# /usr/lib/systemd/system/sshd.service
[Unit]
Description=OpenSSH server daemon
Documentation=man:sshd(8) man:sshd_config(5)
After=network.target...