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I wish more people tried systemd instead of rc.local and crontab!

[HOWTO] use systemd instead of rc.local on Linux to auto start the server

Today rc.local is more or less obsolete and replaced by systemd in most Linux distribution. As from Ubuntu 16 (I think) rc.local is not enabled by default. You will actually have to run it as a systemd service if you decide to enable it So, a brief tutorial coming up! Open up a terminal window on your system. Root privileges are needed, but if you logon as root or use sudo doesn’t matter. Units created by sysadm should be placed in /etc/systemd/system/ so we change our directory accor…