[erlang-questions] Setting up a startup service

[Ryan Auger]

This was it. Thank you Fred.

On Dec 18, 2017, 6:18 PM -0500, Fred Youhanaie <fly@REDACTED>, wrote:
> Hi
>
> systemd doesn't work when programs (services) detach and run in the background.
>
> Try starting it with "foreground" instead of start or console.
>
> Cheers,
> Fred
>
>
> On 18/12/17 22:55, asdf asdf wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have built an Erlang program and created a release using rebar3 release. To run this program, I use the command:
> >
> > *./_build/default/rel/program/bin/program start*
> >
> > What I would like to do now is have this program start on startup whenever the box boots or whenever the VM crashes. I have to use a RHEL 7 box for this, so I am using systemd. I created a service below:
> >
> > *[Unit]*
> > *Description=program *
> > *After=network.target*
> > *
> > *
> > *[Service]*
> > *Type=simple *
> > *User=root*
> > *ExecStart=/home/root/repos/program/_build/default/rel/program/bin/program start *
> > *Restart=on-abort*
> > *
> > *
> > *[Install]
> > *
> > *WantedBy=multi-user.target *
> >
> >
> > This doesn’t work however - I get the following output:
> >
> > *Dec 18 17:43:59 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Started program.
> > *
> > *Dec 18 17:43:59 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting program… *
> >
> > (It is odd that it says “started program” followed by “starting program”…)
> >
> > Now here is the interesting part - if I switch out “start” with “console” , I get good output - I get the successful start message. But then a crash… :
> >
> > *Dec 18 17:45:40 localhost.localdomain program[14167]: 17:45:40.429 [info] Application program started on node 'program@REDACTED'*
> > *Dec 18 17:45:40 localhost.localdomain program[14167]: Eshell V8.2.2  (abort with ^G)*
> > *Dec 18 17:45:40 localhost.localdomain program 14167]: (program@REDACTED)1> *** Terminating erlang ('program@REDACTED’)*
> >
> > This crash is expected though, because I tried to start it in console but it was a background process. My point though is that it starts up, but for some unknown reason it is exiting. On top of that,
> > all of the log files in _build/default/rel/program/log are empty, so I’m not getting any valuable info on why it isn’t starting.
> >
> > And to clarify, I have copy/pasted the ExecStart command from the file to the command line and it works when it is run from the command line, so this isn’t a path issue.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea as to what I am doing wrong?
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> >
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