Systemctl status shows Succeeded, but service is inactive

Question

I have this simple /etc/systemd/system/test.service file

[Unit]
Description=SkriptA
After=network.target auditd.service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/opt/test.sh

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

When i run systemctl start test.service and then systemctl status test.service It shows that serivce succeeded but is inacitve, please why is this?

● test1.service - SkriptA
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/test1.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Mar 05 12:17:55 hro0078 systemd[1]: Started SkriptA.
Mar 05 12:17:55 hro0078 systemd[1]: test1.service: Succeeded.

The ExecStart script is simple as service

#!/usr/bin/bash

echo Hi > /tmp/test1
date >> /tmp/test1

I use: Linux version 4.19.0-13-amd64 ([email protected]) (gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)) #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28)

Answer 1

Your program was started successfully and it terminated directly.

To have your service active, it needs to keep running. Example:

#!/usr/bin/bash

while [ 1 ]; do
    echo Hi > /tmp/test1
    date >> /tmp/test1
    sleep 60
done