# Disabling mender systemd service for standalone deployments
**URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/disabling-mender-systemd-service-for-standalone-deployments/3799
**Category:** General Discussions
**Tags:** yocto, nxp
**Created:** [June 25, 2021, 9:50pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/disabling-mender-systemd-service-for-standalone-deployments/3799 "2021-06-25T21:50:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@darts476](https://hub.mender.io/u/darts476)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2021, 9:50pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/disabling-mender-systemd-service-for-standalone-deployments/3799/1 "2021-06-25T21:50:29Z")
I’m trying to use mender in a standalone mode. According to this link
[https://docs.mender.io/development/system-updates-yocto-project/customize-mender#disabling-mender-as-a-system-service](https://docs.mender.io/development/system-updates-yocto-project/customize-mender#disabling-mender-as-a-system-service)
I need to disable the systemd service, which I can confirm is running. However, when I add this line to my `local.conf`
```auto
MENDER_FEATURES_DISABLE_append = " mender-systemd"
```
I see this error in building
```auto
ERROR: mender-configure-1.0.0-r0 do_package: SYSTEMD_SERVICE_mender-configure value mender-configure-apply-device-config.service does not exist
```
Is there a step I’m missing to disable this service?
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### Author:  [@dellgreen](https://hub.mender.io/u/dellgreen)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/disabling-mender-systemd-service-for-standalone-deployments/3799/2 "2021-06-25T22:09:34Z")
Theres some discussion here on the topic, mender.service got renamed mender-client.service at some point.
> [@Error disabling systemd](https://hub.mender.io/t/error-disabling-systemd/3685/5):
>
> First, I think the documentation has a bug: meta-mender/meta-mender-core/recipes-mender doesn’t contain a mender directory (nor mender\_%.bb), so shouldn’t my layer contain recipes-mender/mender-client/mender-client\_%.bbappend instead? With this change, I did a bitbake -e mender-client and see this: # $SYSTEMD\_AUTO\_ENABLE [4 operations] # set /yocto-src/sources/poky/meta/conf/documentation.conf:403 # [doc] "For recipes that inherit the systemd class, this variable specifies whether the …
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### Author:  [@darts476](https://hub.mender.io/u/darts476)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/disabling-mender-systemd-service-for-standalone-deployments/3799/3 "2021-06-25T22:10:34Z")
@dellgreen thanks and sorry for the double post. I just ran across it.