Hi, thanks for your reply.
On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:26 PM Peter Wiersig <pe...@friesenpeter.de> wrote: > 5.) > Instead of init.d scripts create systemd units. > https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Creating_or_altering_services https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ So you propose not to use init.d scripts. I usually prefer a simple shell script that is easy to test, systemd is just way to complex. But probably for Debian you are right, if I understood correctly, newer versions do not even support init.d / LSB anymore, so using systemd units seems to be required there. About your gitlab-runner.service failure: > > https://wiki.debian.org/systemd#Failed_units > HINT: Extensive debugging information about systemd is on this > FreeDesktop page. https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Debugging/ I didn't find anything about init.d or DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE in these pages. I just see that I'm supposed to reboot (!) with special parameters to debug a shell script. Only I found using "status", but this does not help either: root@node17-0:/etc/init.d# systemctl status gitlab-runner2.service - gitlab-runner2.service Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory) Active: inactive (dead) funny that it does not even tell WHICH file was not found and why it was loaded anyway. I tried "journalctl -b > journal.txt" and found in journal.txt several blocks like that: 09:40:09 node17-0 systemd[1]: Started LSB: gitlab-runner. 09:40:09 node17-0 gitlab-runner[17967]: Starting multi-runner from /local/users/sdettmer/work/_gitlab/config.tom l ... builds=0 ... 09:44:08 node17-0 systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: gitlab-runner... 09:44:08 node17-0 gitlab-runner[17967]: WARNING: Requested service stop: terminated builds=0 09:44:08 node17-0 gitlab-runner[17967]: All workers stopped. Can exit now builds=0 09:44:08 node17-0 gitlab-runner[10318]: Stopping GitLab Runner:. 09:44:08 node17-0 systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: gitlab-runner. which does not give any hint (except that it works with DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE set). The string "gitlab-runner2" does not appear anywhere in the whole file at all. Any other places where I could look? What is in gitlab-runner.service on that one server anyways? > There is no such file "gitlab-runner.service" (I tried "find /etc" and "locate"). It seem that some systemd magic applies here. Maybe, if its content is needed for technical reasons, systemd creates some "virtual unit" on the fly, who knows. > Somewhen in 2016-2018 someone on debian planet posted multiple blogs of > a great systemd introduction series, I can't find my bookmark right now > :( > What a pitty, I though init.d scripts would be in support of systemd, but apparently they are not anymore :( So in future portable packages won't be that easy. Steffen
