Odd service in Ubuntu - emby-server@.service

[ulrick65 30]

I was doing a little system maintenance and I came across a disabled service for Emby (my server is working fine).  Here's the two entries:

 

emby-server.service                        enabled

emby-server@.service                     disabled

 

Any idea what the disabled one is all about?

 

Thanks.

[Luke 42079]

Hi, did you have our old opensuse package installed a long time ago? It could be left over from that.

[ulrick65 30]

No, this a new install about 6 weeks ago.  New hard drive, full install of Ubuntu 18.04 and then built from there....with just a restore of the configs in Emby.

 

I will simply delete it, but I wanted to ask why it might be there and let you know about it.

 

Thanks.

[Luke 42079]

I'll pull in our package developer for comment. Thanks.

[alucryd 315]

This is an additional systemd unit in case people want to run the emby server as a user different than "emby" which is a system user. People might want to run the server as their own user to simplify access to their media files.

[ulrick65 30]

This is an additional systemd unit in case people want to run the emby server as a user different than "emby" which is a system user. People might want to run the server as their own user to simplify access to their media files.

 

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.