systemctl enable works but systemctl --user enable does not

Question

I have a DO droplet running Ubuntu 16.04.1x64 and I'm trying to run IPFS as a systemd service. I've gone ahead and created a user "connor" and installed IPFS following the instructions here. I'm storing the service as "ipfs.service" in ~/.config/systemd/user/ipfs.service which looks like this:

[Unit]
Description=IPFS Daemon

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
ExecStop=/usr/bin/pkill ipfs
Restart=always
User=Connor

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

What's odd is that if I run systemctl --user start ipfs it starts up just fine. However, running systemctl --user daemon-reload and then systemctl --user enable ipfs I get the error:

Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory

However, if I run systemctl enable /home/connor/.config/systemd/user/ipfs.service -f it runs just fine. I can reboot and run IPFS commands just fine. I'd like to run it as a user though, and would also like to understand what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

Please, check that you are executing the commands with connor user, you may run whoami to see the user executing the command. (running the command with sudo changes the user to root)

In addition, I see that the user in the service file is capitalized (Connor instead of connor), this could bring other problems, and it is not needed, as a simple configuration like the one proposed by Arch Linux wiki works for user daemons.

Please find bellow the configuration I used for my ipfs daemon, (without User= and with a different Restart=, since Restart=always gave me problems while starting the daemon):

[Unit]
Description=IPFS daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target