Hi Barry, Thanks for the response. Answers inline below.
> On Apr 17, 2023, at 5:09 PM, Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote: > > > >> On 17 Apr 2023, at 19:05, Bill Steinberg <b...@ponusridge.com> wrote: >> >> Hello systemd devel, >> >> I have a systemd service that I’ve run on prior versions of fedora which >> fails to start via systemd on Fedora release 37. It is a oneshot service >> that starts the distributed checksum clearing house’s dccifd service via a >> shell script. Here is the definition of the service: >> >> [Unit] >> Description=Distributed Checksum Clearinghouses dccifd daemon >> After=syslog.target network.target >> >> [Service] >> Type=oneshot > > Oneshot seems wrong. > >> RemainAfterExit=yes >> ExecStart=/var/dcc/libexec/rcDCC -m dccifd start > Does this run a background daemon? Yes, the rcDCC shell script starts and runs a linux executable, a background daemon as you call it. > Can you just run that daemon directly? I could run the shell script directly to start the dccifd executable however if the fedora linux server is rebooted I would need to remember to run the shell script manually. I’d like the dccifd daemon to start automatically when the fedora linux server is started. Isn’t systemd meant for this? > Hopefully that program can be run without demonising. > > >> ExecStop=/var/dcc/libexec/rcDCC -m dccifd stop > If it is oneshot it does not need a stop Is there another type that should be used besides oneshot? I may want to run systemctl stop dccifd.service, for example when dccifd is being upgraded to a new version. The dccifd executable is started and stopped using a shell script. It is not run directly. One reason is that the shell script contains the arguments that are passed to the dccifd linux executable. > >> Restart=no >> >> [Install] >> WantedBy=multi-user.target >> >> >> The error in the journalctl log is: >> >> systemd[1]: Starting dccifd.service - Distributed Checksum Clearinghouses >> dccifddaemon… >> systemd[1]: dccifd.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV >> systemd[1]: dccifd.service: Failed with result 'signal’. >> systemd[1]: Failed to start dccifd.service - Distributed Checksum >> Clearinghouses dccifddaemon. >> >> The two scripts in ExecStart and ExecStop run successfully outside of >> systemd. Any info as to why systemd fails when executing these scripts would >> be appreciated. >> >> Best, >> Bill Steinberg
