Linux systemd service startup file

[manish]

Hello,

 

We have been running CentOS 7 successfully, but the server has not been automatically starting up with the legacy init.d startup scripts.

 

Do you have a ".service" script available to use with "systemd" startup that provides the same functionality?

 

Thank you!

 

[calbzam]

Hello,

 

Are you using the Linux packages? They should include the server scripts by default. 

 

Regards,

Carlos.

[dperham]

I am using Ubuntu 15.10, which also uses systemd but will start init.d scripts using some transparent legacy startup script translation.   Getting plasticd to start on reboot was easy but not without some work.   This is how I did it

 

copy the existing plasticsd startup script into init.d

sudo cp /opt/plasticscm5/server/plasticsd /etc/init.d
cd /etc/init.d

apply patch plasticsd.txt.   This patch

1. gets rid of the carriage return characters from the INIT INFO block
2. adds the "Required-Start" INIT INFO to require the filesystem and the network to be started before plasicd (should have probably included the database server in there too)
3. Set the home directory of plastic server 
4. (can optionally be removed) changes the kill logic in the stop function to try to nicely kill the plastic daemon several times and will not remove the pid file if plasticd is still alive.  

patch < plasticsd.txt

make systemd recognize the new script and restart 

systemctl daemon-reload
service plasticsd restart

[manu]

Hi!

 

thank you dperham for providing a solution!

 

We'll take case of updating it.

[manu]

I have applied the patch but it refuses to restart without a "plasticsd.service" file:

service plasticsd restart
Failed to restart plasticsd.service: Unit plasticsd.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

[dperham]

just confirming that you

 

• put the plasticsd init script in /etc/init.d
• confirm ownership and permissions 

ls -al /etc/init.d/plasticsd 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3333 Jan 11 08:51 /etc/init.d/plasticsd

• ran "systemctl reload-daemon"

[manu]

Nothing

 

"/etc/init.d/plasticsd" is a symlink and the permissions are:

 

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Dec 23 02:15 /etc/init.d/plasticsd -> /opt/plasticscm5/server/plasticsd

[dperham]

 what is the output of 'systemctl status plasticsd'

 

alternatively you could create /etc/systemd/system/plasticsd.service and put the following in it:

[Unit]
Description=PlasticSCM Service
After=local-fs.target syslog.service network.target mysql.service


[Service]
Type=forking
User=root
Group=root
ExecStart=/opt/plasticscm5/server/plasticsd start
ExecStop=/opt/plasticscm5/server/plasticsd stop


[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[manu]

This is the output:

sudo systemctl status plasticsd
[sudo] password for codice: 
● plasticsd.service
   Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
   Active: inactive (dead)

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo service plasticsd restart
Failed to restart plasticsd.service: Unit plasticsd.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

Even with the "/etc/systemd/plasticsd.service" file I get the same error (I did the "systemctl daemon-reload")