Since WSL does not have systemctl, this is a hacky way to start all the services you need to start every time you reboot your WSL or Laptop

.aliases

# Current Version: 1.3
# Starts all the services that normally startup with systemd but that does not work with WSL so
# until there is a real fix I wrote this shell script to really fash start all the services needed.
# By: Shawn Crigger
# Website: http://blog.shawn-crigger.com/

# Now this is just a simple alias, I store all my ZSH|BASH aliases in a seoerate file called .aliases

# Just whereever you store your aliases just add the following if you want it.Just add the following line and resource the file your aliases are stored in


alias status='service --status-all'

readme.md

Installation Instructions

1. Make sure you put this file in a directory that is in your $PATH, I personally use ~/bin and add that directory to my $PATH
2. chmod +x startup to give the BASH script executable permission
3. When you first start your Ubuntu WSL, run startup, if it can't be found then it is not in your $PATH, try running sudo ~/bin/startup
4. I also added a restart script to quickly restart the servies in WSL, just follow the same Instructions for the startup script
5. There is also a bash alias you can add to quickly check the status of all services.

restart

#!/bin/sh

# Current Version: 1.3
# Starts all the services that normally startup with systemd but that does not work with WSL so
# until there is a real fix I wrote this shell script to really fash start all the services needed.
# By: Shawn Crigger
# Website: http://blog.shawn-crigger.com/

sudo service ssh restart
sudo service cron restart
sudo service network-manager restart
sudo service dbus restart
sudo service mysql restart
sudo service php7.2-fpm restart
sudo service apache2 restart
sudo service redis-server restart

startup

#!/bin/sh

# Current Version: 1.3
# Starts all the services that normally startup with systemd but that does not work with WSL so
# until there is a real fix I wrote this shell script to really fash start all the services needed.
# By: Shawn Crigger
# Website: http://blog.shawn-crigger.com/

sudo service ssh start
sudo service cron start
sudo service network-manager start
sudo service dbus start
sudo service mysql start
sudo service php7.2-fpm start
sudo service apache2 start
sudo service redis-server start