Ttyjfyk

Pretty new to systemctl, I would like to display my VM ip address on console when I boot my centos.

I created a service and enabled it :

[root@centos-3 system]# cat show-ip-on-boot.service
[Unit]
Description=Show IP of eno interface on boot

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/show-ip-on-boot.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

The "show-ip-on-boot.sh" script is :

 #!/bin/sh

 ip a | grep "inet" | grep "eno" | awk -F/ 'print $1' | awk 'print $2'

When I start the service manually, I can see in the logs that it is working :

[root@centos-3 ~]# journalctl -u show-ip-on-boot
-- Logs begin at Thu 2016-10-06 13:59:38 CEST, end at Thu 2016-10-06 14:15:37 CEST. --
Oct 06 14:04:32 centos-3.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Show IP of eno interface on boot...
Oct 06 14:04:32 centos-3.localdomain show-ip-on-boot.sh[2180]: 192.168.0.43
Oct 06 14:04:32 centos-3.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Show IP of eno interface on boot.

but how can I see it displayed on console at boot ? Should I add something to my script?

Also, when I reboot, I can see in logs that the service is started but it doesn't execute the command :

[root@centos-3 ~]# systemctl status show-ip-on-boot.service
â show-ip-on-boot.service - Show IP of eno interface on boot
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/show-ip-on-boot.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2016-10-06 13:33:55 CEST; 1min 52s ago
Process: 740 ExecStart=/usr/bin/show-ip-on-boot.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 740 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Oct 06 13:33:54 centos-3.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Show IP of eno interface on boot...
Oct 06 13:33:55 centos-3.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Show IP of eno interface on boot.

I probably miss something in systemd concept... Can you please give me a hint on that matter. Thanks.

systemd collects output from services and logs it in the journal (because this is usually what you want, so that output from services is persistent).

You can change the behavior for a specific service by setting the StandardOutput and StandardError options, as described in the systemd.exec(5) man page, which says:

StandardOutput=

Controls where file descriptor 1 (STDOUT) of the executed processes is connected to. Takes one of inherit, null, tty,
journal, syslog, kmsg, journal+console, syslog+console, kmsg+console or socket.

[...]

journal+console, syslog+console and kmsg+console work in a similar way as the three options above but copy the output to the system console as well.

So in theory, something like this should do the trick:

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/show-ip-on-boot.sh
StandardOutput=journal+console

Don't need a service
Symply add a line at /etc/issue file.
Below my /etc/issue file:

S

Kernel r on an m

My Ip address: 4enp0s3 <----- Line added,

Working on Centos 7 in a VirtualBox.

The "enp03s" is the network interface card I want to know the IP.