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I'm developping a dotnet core service to run in rpi4, and when i execute the service with "dotnet run rpiservice.dll" the code executes normally. So, i created a .service file and insert in /etc/systemd/system folder. Here's my file:

[Unit] Description=ANA Service [Service] ExecStart=/opt/dotnet/dotnet RpiGateway.dll WorkingDirectory=/home/stationpi/RpiGateway Restart=always RestartSec=10 User=stationpi [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

But when i reboot rpi the service doesn't started. When i check the status with "systemctl status rpi.service" returns me "inactive(dead)".

I try many things, and when i change the WantedBy to "default.target" the service started normally on boot.

Anyone knows why multi-user.target doesn't work? Many tutorials that teach how to create a service in rpi use multi-user.target.

Thanks a lot!

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Anyone knows why multi-user.target doesn't work? Many tutorials that teach how to create a service in rpi use multi-user.target.

Likely because multi-user.target is not the default target; if you installed from the "full" (ie., not "lite") version of Rpi OS, the default will be graphical.target.

You can check this with:

> systemctl get-default

If you want to change it:

> sudo systemctl set-default multi-user

However, unless you have some particular reason to do that, you might as well leave it the way it is. It's also usually best to use WantedBy=default.target as that will match the active target regardless of whether it is graphical or multi-user or whatever.

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