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ZNC went down last week. Luckily people knew to contact me so I could log in and bring it back.

As far as I can tell, it should have come back up; the word "enabled" on the Loaded line tells me that.

ircbouncer@chives:~$ systemctl --user status znc
● znc.service - ZNC IRC bouncer service
   Loaded: loaded (/home/ircbouncer/.config/systemd/user/znc.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-02-21 14:51:10 UTC; 1 weeks 0 days ago
 Main PID: 32354 (znc)
   CGroup: /user.slice/user-1579.slice/user@1579.service/znc.service
           └─32354 /usr/bin/znc --foreground

I think I should be able to do the following in order to access ZNC's logs myself, but can't. I do not know enough about systemd to know if I'm making a silly mistake/assumption or otherwise missing something obvious.

# This is how I'd normally do it on my own servers, but as root.
# Not surprised this doesn't work
ircbouncer@chives:~$ journalctl -eu znc.service
Hint: You are currently not seeing messages from other users and the system.
      Users in the 'systemd-journal' group can see all messages. Pass -q to
      turn off this notice.
No journal files were opened due to insufficient permissions.

# But after a skim of the man page, I would assume something like
# the following commands to work. None of them do.
# They all output the same as above.

ircbouncer@chives:~$ journalctl --user-unit znc
ircbouncer@chives:~$ journalctl --user
ircbouncer@chives:~$ journalctl --user --user-unit znc

Here is the znc.service file

[Unit]
Description=ZNC IRC bouncer service

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/znc --foreground

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Maybe it needs to depend on networking to be up already?

I'm at a loss and have no logs to help me.