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Starting and enabling a service in Linux

Linuxsystemdsystemctlbeginner

What this snippet does

enable sets it to start at boot and --now starts it immediately.

Expected output

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/postgresql.service

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