AMSA

Activity 1: Booting & systemd

Activity brief

Develop a systemd service that outputs “Hello, in ASCII art every time you boot up your virtual machine”

For this you must:

1. Create a script that prints the message
2. Create a systemd service linked to this script
3. Move the service and start it properly

Do it with any language you prefer, although bash is probably the simpliest one.

What to send?

Accept the assignment in github classroom, following the link

To complete this activity, you must deliver a link to your Github repository, which will contain:

• The script itself
• The .service file
• A screenshot of your journalctl output, where the script output can be seen.

Example of the journalctl screenshot:

Some useful resources

• Redhat’s documentation on how to manage services with systemd

• SUSE’s documentation on setting up a systemd service

• Check out banner or figlet, some commands to make ascii from bash

• Check out pyfiglet if you’re one of those that prefer python

• A more complete approach to systemd (1h)