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.
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
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On a Virtual Maching running on Centos7, using root privileges, I want to create a service to launch a Python (Python 3.9) webservice and restart it every hour.
Here's what i did:
creating a directory /etc/systemd/system/dlweb_doc_webservice.service.d
creating a file dlweb_db_generate_report.service like this
[Unit]
Description=dlweb_db_generate_report_webservice
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
[Service]
Type = simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/python3.9 /opt/scripts/dlweb_db_generate_report_webservice/dlweb_db_generate_report.py
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5s
StartLimitIntervalSec=3600
StartLimitBurst=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
running systemctl daemon-reload
running systemctl --type=service --all doesn't display my service
and
running systemctl enable dlweb_db_generate_report_webservice returned a Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory
What did i miss or do wrong?
I have a cpp application which broadcasts an object and its methods on the dbus. I try to run this program at startup with the following service file:
[Unit]
Description=Running dbus program
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/my_name/Documents/dbus/build/my_app
StandardOutput=console+journal
StandardError=console+journal
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
After reloading:
systemctl daemon-reload
and running it:
sudo systemctl start my_service.service
I got no error in the journal, but I cant see anything on the dbus (running d-feet, and browsing for my object, I cant find anything)
Running the exact same ExecStart:
/home/my_name/Documents/dbus/build/my_app
in the console works fine.
What am I missing? Thanks!
As you want your service to run on the session bus you will need to use:
sudo systemctl --user start my_service.service
Putting the file into /etc/systemd/user/ location will make it available to all users still.
Is there a possibility to change container restart policy using podman? We can set policy during creating container podman run --restart always, but how to change it when the container is created?
Using docker we have docker update command which allows us to do so. Unfortunately there is no podman update command. Can it be done? Or do I need to create a new container?
when using podman you should create a systemd service that will manage podman container.
create systemd file "/etc/systemd/system/containername.service"
[Unit]
Description=your container
[Service]
Restart=always
ExecStart=/usr/bin/podman start -a containername
ExecStop=/usr/bin/podman stop -t 2 containername
[Install]
WantedBy=local.target
run command:
systemctl daemon-reload
enable service to start at boot
systemctl enable containername.service
restart service
systemctl restart containername.service
You can also add some other restart systemd parameters like:
RestartSec (Configures the time to sleep before restarting a service), StartLimitInterval (seconds service is it not permitted to start any more), StartLimitBurst
for more details check man pages: "man systemd.service"
I just downloaded jbpm server from JBPM.
it starts by running "jbpm-server/bin/standalone.sh" this. But i want to start jbpm as ubuntu's service like---> systemctl start jbpm.
can anyone provide me details to create startup script for this.
You should create a file in your systemd directory, for example /etc/systemd/system/change_me.service and fill it with a basic setup like:
[Unit]
Description=Your service's description
[Service]
ExecStart=/path/to/executable.sh
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then you should reload your systemd configuration in order to update it with the new service via
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
And then start it
sudo systemctl start change_me
If you want a more granular control over your systemd's service file you should read the man page via:
man systemd.service
I've created the following systemd unit in the cloud-init file:
- path: /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/docker-compose.service
owner: root:root
permissions: '0755'
content: |
[Unit]
Description=Docker Compose Boot Up
Requires=docker.service
After=docker.service
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/docker-compose -f /opt/data/docker-compose.yml up -d
Restart=always
RestartSec=30
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
When I try to run
sudo systemctl enable docker-compose.service
to create the symlink I get this:
Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory
However I'm sure that the file is under /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants
I had the same need, but I was working from a recipe that said to create /etc/systemd/system/unit.service and then do systemctl enable --now unit.
So I created the unit file with write_files and did the reload and enable in a text/x-shellscript part and that worked fine. (User scripts run last and in order, while I don't think there are guarantees about when the write_files key in the user-data is processed. I found out the hard way that it's before the user key so you can't set ownership to users that cloud-init creates).
I think runcmd entries are converted to user scripts and run in list order (either before or after the other user scripts), so if you don't like x-shellscript parts you can do the reload and enable that way. /var/log/cloud-init.log is where I check the order, there is probably a config file too.
Full disclosure: I forgot the systemctl daemon-reload command but it still worked. Actually there is a caveat against systemd manipulations from cloud-init because it's running under systemd itself and some systemd commands may wait for cloud-init to finish -- deadlock!
After unit file creation but before any manipulations with it systemd should be notified about the changes:
systemctl daemon-reload
So cloud-init YAML block creating docker-compose.service file should be followed by:
runcmd:
- systemctl daemon-reload
Check that every file involved is present and valid:
ls -l /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/docker-compose.service
ls -l /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
ls -l /opt/data/docker-compose.yml
systemd-analyze verify /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/docker-compose.service
Also consider the timing. Even if the files exist once they are fully booted, would /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ exist when cloud-init runs?