Running Syncthing as a service on Ubuntu Server 16.04

[reubendevries (reuben)]

Trying to setup synching on my Ubuntu Server. I’ve followed these instructions which are pretty clear, but when I run this command:

sudo service syncthing start 

I get an error message which says:

Failed to start syncthing.service: Unit syncthing.service not found.

The only place that I deviated from the instructions above was instead of installing Syncthing the way the blogger suggested, I added syncthing into my PPA repositories. If anyone has any way of helping me get this going it would be much appreciated. Even if you have a link to another spot in the forum. I tried searching and couldn’t find anything. Thanks in advanced.

[perewa (Tenorio)]

Ubuntu 16.04 uses systemd as default init system instead of upstart ( https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/what-s-new-in-ubuntu-16-04 ) also your error message is a very systemd like message

Take a look at the systemd scripts provided with syncthing, they are well written and easy to use.

tenorio

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

They are also included by default in the right place in our Debian packages.

[rumpelsepp (Stefan Tatschner)]

Usually you have to include the user who should run syncthing, like this:

# systemctl start syncthing@user.service