The Linux part from "Starting Syncthing Automatically" is incorrect or outdated about docs HOT 9 CLOSED

OK, I don't want to bother. Sorry for closing suddenly.

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On an extended note: In my opinion that page is too much, in the same sense as discussed in #261: This tries to document another project. In my opinion we should only mention that/where/how we provide the systemd service files, anything that is Syncthing specific about them or the setup and maybe a link to the relevant documentation/a good tutorial.

I agree, BUT we received a lot of bug reports and support questions because people did not know what is the difference between these. Also, they tried to start syncthing as root using a user service and so on. This paragraph helped reducing these questions, so I would like to keep them there; maybe we could simplify it. But we should keep it.

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Docs are maintained mostly by the community, so feel free to file a pull request fixing the parts you think are incorrect.

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OK I try to know how do the start on boot and then change the doc.
Thanks.

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This is definitely an issue, so we should keep this open until it is actually fixed.

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@manuti Could you explain what you mean by "are incorrect or contain mistakes".

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We could add a sentence that maybe the service is already there, depending on how the user has installed syncthing (e.g. via apt-get or manually).

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@rumpelsepp The path

Syncthing/etc/system/[email protected]

in step 2 isn't correct. If you installed from source, you need to copy from ./etc/linux-systemd/system in the source directory. Also if you installed via apt you don't need to copy anything as you mentioned.

On an extended note: In my opinion that page is too much, in the same sense as discussed in #261: This tries to document another project. In my opinion we should only mention that/where/how we provide the systemd service files, anything that is Syncthing specific about them or the setup and maybe a link to the relevant documentation/a good tutorial.

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We could add a sentence that maybe the service is already there, depending on how the user has installed syncthing (e.g. via apt-get or manually).

I believe this is fixed. There's nothing more immediately actionable in this issue, so let's close it and wait for Someone(TM) to propose a better text.

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