systemd-socket-activate

Socket activation for systemd services. More information: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-socket-activate.html.

• Activate a service when a specific socket is connected:

systemd-socket-activate path/to/socket.service

• Activate multiple sockets for a service:

systemd-socket-activate path/to/socket1.service path/to/socket2.service

• Pass environment variables to the service being activated:

SYSTEMD_SOCKET_ACTIVATION=1 systemd-socket-activate path/to/socket.service

• Activate a service along with a notification socket:

systemd-socket-activate path/to/socket.socket path/to/service.service

• Activate a service with a specified port:

systemd-socket-activate path/to/socket.service -l 8080