First Time Bird - Failing To Start

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023, at 22:04, Jesse Mac Dougall via Bird-users wrote:
> Hello, I am setting up bird daemon for the first time.  I have built a BGP
> Neighborship in /etc/bird6.conf and now attempting to start the bird
> daemon but unsuccessful and do not know why.
>
> When I "systemctl start bird" I get failed start.  | I am uncertain if I
> am supposed to have a file in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ for bird.  The
> guidance I've been given so far says no file in /usr/lib/systemd/system/.
>
> I have /etc/bird.conf6 file created

Please use 'systemctl status bird' and 'journalctl -eu bird' to find out *why* it failed to start.