On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 14:53:10 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 04, 2026 at 12:49:40PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > in particular when I run 'loginctl enaable-linger chris' where is the > > required flag set? > > It's stored as a zero byte file in /var/lib/systemd/linger/.
This isn't in any of the man pages as far as I can see. hobbit:/usr/share/man$ zgrep systemd/linger man1/* hobbit:/usr/share/man$ zgrep systemd/linger man5/* hobbit:/usr/share/man$ zgrep systemd/linger man7/* hobbit:/usr/share/man$ zgrepping for just "linger" led me to systemd-run(1) which talks about lingering as a concept, and says that users "can enable lingering for themselves" by running loginctl enable-linger. Nowhere does it say what that command actually *does*, file-system-wise.
