systemd Service Exit Codes

Exit status codes used by systemd when a service process fails to start or exits abnormally. Codes 200–243 are systemd-specific and indicate which setup step failed before exec. Standard codes (0, 1) follow POSIX conventions.

46 codes

• 0 Success
• 1 Failure
• 200 ENVIRONMENT
• 201 GETATTR
• 202 CHDIR
• 203 EXEC
• 204 MEMORY
• 205 LIMITS
• 206 OOM_ADJUST
• 207 SIGNAL_MASK
• 208 STDIN
• 209 STDOUT
• 210 CHOWN
• 211 SETSID
• 212 SETPGID
• 213 EXEC_FORMAT_ERROR
• 214 CHROOT
• 215 CAPABILITIES
• 216 GROUP
• 217 USER
• 218 SYMLINKS
• 219 CGROUP
• 220 SCHED
• 221 MOUNT
• 222 SMACK_PROCESS_LABEL
• 223 KEYRING
• 224 STATE_DIRECTORY
• 225 RUNTIME_DIRECTORY
• 226 PROC_EXEC_BINARY
• 227 CREDENTIALS
• 228 CONFIGURATION_DIRECTORY
• 229 NUMA_POLICY
• 230 EXEC_DIRECTORY
• 231 PROTECT_HOME
• 232 NAMESPACE
• 233 NO_NEW_PRIVILEGES
• 234 SECCOMP
• 235 SELINUX_CONTEXT
• 236 PERSONALITY
• 237 APPARMOR_PROFILE
• 238 ADDRESS_FAMILIES
• 239 RUNTIME_DIRECTORY_PRESERVE
• 240 MAKE_SLICE
• 241 BPFPROG
• 242 NETWORK_NAMESPACE
• 243 RUNTIME_BIND_MOUNT