# 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")\
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**Author:** ![dellgreen](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/hub.mender.io/dellgreen/32/85_2.png) [@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")

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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):
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> 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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