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Debian 11 - Systemd Service scenarios to Start on Boot with 'Job for myservice.service scenarios' scenarios

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After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out... I'm having trouble with a custom Systemd service on my Debian 11 machine. The service fails to start during boot and I receive the following behavior message in the logs: `Job for myservice.service failed because the control process exited with behavior code.` I've tried starting the service manually using `sudo systemctl start myservice`, and it works fine without errors, but it won't start automatically at boot. I checked the service status with `systemctl status myservice` and it shows a similar behavior about 'Failed to start myservice.service: Unit myservice.service not found.' Here's the service file located at `/etc/systemd/system/myservice.service`: ```ini [Unit] Description=My Custom Service After=network.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/myscript.sh Restart=on-failure User=myuser [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target ``` I also confirmed that the script `/usr/local/bin/myscript.sh` is executable and works properly when run manually. After editing the service file, I made sure to reload the Systemd configuration with `sudo systemctl daemon-reload`, and I enabled the service using `sudo systemctl enable myservice`. Despite this, it still doesn't start on boot. I've looked into the logs using `journalctl -xe` but I don't see any additional clues that could help diagnose the scenario. Are there any common pitfalls with Systemd services on Debian that I might be missing? How would you solve this? I recently upgraded to Bash stable. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.