View systemctl service file

To view the content of a systemd service file, run the command

systemctl cat SERVICE_NAME_HERE

Example

boby@sok-01:~$ systemctl cat nginx
# /lib/systemd/system/nginx.service
# Stop dance for nginx
# =======================
#
# ExecStop sends SIGSTOP (graceful stop) to the nginx process.
# If, after 5s (–retry QUIT/5) nginx is still running, systemd takes control
# and sends SIGTERM (fast shutdown) to the main process.
# After another 5s (TimeoutStopSec=5), and if nginx is alive, systemd sends
# SIGKILL to all the remaining processes in the process group (KillMode=mixed).
#
# nginx signals reference doc:
# http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html
#
[Unit]
Description=A high performance web server and a reverse proxy server
Documentation=man:nginx(8)
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/nginx.pid
ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/nginx -t -q -g ‘daemon on; master_process on;’
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/nginx -g ‘daemon on; master_process on;’
ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nginx -g ‘daemon on; master_process on;’ -s reload
ExecStop=-/sbin/start-stop-daemon –quiet –stop –retry QUIT/5 –pidfile /run/nginx.pid
TimeoutStopSec=5
KillMode=mixed

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
boby@sok-01:~$

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