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Unison systemd service
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unison@.service
# /etc/systemd/system/unison@.service
# Starts unison with the .prf-config of your choice
# Create a unison .prf-config such as
# https://gist.github.com/thunfischbrot/3efbd4a87785615a61e4f5fd875f2699
# Set the HOME Environment variable below to the user's home dir
# Reload systemd services
# systemctl daemon-reload
# Start service with name of your .prf
# systemctl start unison@20Documents
# systemctl status
# If it is working, add to startup
# systemctl enable unison@20Documents
[Unit]
Description=Unison File Synchronization
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
Environment="PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"
# Change to home directory of your user in which the .unison/*.prf files are located
Environment="HOME=/root"
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/unison %i
Restart=always
RestartSec=7
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
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kovkev commented Mar 20, 2018

I'm trying to see if I can use unison with systemd. I'm reading up on systemd but have not encountered the following aspect yet. What if unison finds a conflict and asks the user to chose between the remote or the local version of a file? Is there a way to interact with the systemd unison service to tell it to chose e.g. the remote version?

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