Managing the onedrive service

onedrive comes with a user-level systemd service to sync your files automatically.

Starting the service

systemctl --user start onedrive

Stopping the service

systemctl --user stop onedrive

Enabling the service

systemctl --user enable onedrive

Enabling the onedrive service will tell systemd to start it automatically at boot.

Note that by default systemd will only keep user services running when a user has at least one active session open. To allow the service to run when you're not logged in, use:

# loginctl enable-linger YOURUSERNAME

Logs

To see the logs run:

journalctl --user-unit=onedrive -f

Note that unprivileged users can only view their user-specific log if the Storage directive of the [Journal] section of /etc/systemd/journald.conf is set to persistent (instead of auto or volatile). (More information: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2016-October/037554.html )

Saving the log to file

journalctl --user-unit onedrive -f > onedrive-log.txt &

journalctl notes

journaltcl can also filter messages with a variety of time formats with --since and --until options, which restrict the entries displayed to those after or before the given time, respectively. For absolute time values use the following format:

YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS

If you want to check what happened at 3:00 PM until an 2 hour ago, you could type:

journalctl --user-unit onedrive --since 15:00 --until "2 hour ago"