[Freeswitch-users] systemd won't enable for automatic start of FS

[Bote Man]

I copied freeswitch.xml to /etc/freeswitch but I think that is only for sysvinit anyway.

 

I compiled FS from source which runs in a different directory tree than the Debian package. The debs run under /etc/freeswitch while the compiled version runs under /usr/local/freeswitch as I have it configured.

 

Thanks.

 

Bote

 

 

From: freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] On Behalf Of Volodymyr Fedorov
Sent: Monday, 17 August, 2015 12:48
To: FreeSWITCH Users Help
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] systemd won't enable for automatic start of FS

 

Hello, 

Do you copied sample configs to /etc/freeswitch directory.

 

 

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:36 PM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:

I’m struggling to get systemd to start FreeSWITCH at boot time and also leave it running once it starts.

 

Problem #1 – “systemd enable freeswitch” outputs the right steps, but ends with an error message. The error I get is “No such file or directory” but that is less than helpful.

 

Problem #2 – When I start FreeSWITCH with “systemd start freeswitch” it starts alright, but systemd does not detect FS running properly so it kills it after the specified 45 seconds elapses and restarts it. I can see this in top when FS gets a new pid.

 

Details

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It’s a new installation of Debian 8.1 and I chose to use systemd as the init process. I compiled FreeSWITCH from source using the latest Master as of late July. 

 

The only section of the unit file that is supposed to be used by the “enable” command is the [Install] section and that simply points to the multi-user.target as expected.

 

I do not know what to do with the 2 other sample systemd files in /usr/src/freeswitch/debian, perhaps they are key. I have read up on systemd and the FS unit file looks good to my untrained eye. I did not use the sysvinit files that are also in that FS debian directory.

 

I successfully used systemd to start, stop, and enable a few other system services with success so there must be a tweak to the FS unit file that I am missing. I can start FS manually and it runs normally.

 

A Google search revealed a number of complaints that systemd would emit an error message with its “enable” command, yet it would successfully enable the service; this was with a few different services on Debian and Ubuntu, so it seems there might still be some weirdness with systemd on Debian.

 

Has anybody gotten systemd to start FS reliably?

 

Has anybody figured out how to make systemd detect FreeSWITCH running so that it doesn’t restart it repeatedly?

 

Once I figure out how to tame systemd I will document my findings in Confluence as these are the last steps that allow you to get FS up and running quickly.

 

Thanks.

 

 

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Bote

 

 


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