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

Ítalo Rossi italorossib at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 16:38:01 MSD 2015


Bote,

At the end of that page there's one more systemd file, right after the last
layout example. It shouldn't be there, right?

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 2:22 AM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:

> The Confluence page provides instructions only for those who are building
> from source, so it’s a manual process already. The unit file described on
> that page uses the /usr/local/freeswitch locations that you end up with
> when you build from source using the build scripts on that page.
>
>
>
> The deb package is a separate animal and lives in a different place so I
> didn’t see the need to document it, although we could be nice and provide a
> unit file for that once the dust settles on Stan’s ticket.
>
>
>
> I’m hoping to have enough time to mess with the different parameters in
> the unit file to figure out which one was causing it to bork on me, but for
> now I’m just happy the damned thing works. systemd really looks like a much
> better way to manage system services.
>
>
>
> Bote
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael
> Jerris
> *Sent:* Monday, 17 August, 2015 19:21
>
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] systemd won't enable for automatic
> start of FS
>
>
>
> We probably should modify these files to be configure generated and
> installed so that we don't have to have different versions stashed in the
> different packages
>
> On Monday, August 17, 2015, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:
>
> Hot off the press, here is the section of the 1.6 installation page
> dealing with systemd. Let me know if it needs improvement.
>
>
>
>
> https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/FreeSWITCH+1.6+Video#FreeSWITCH1.6Video-StartingFreeSWITCH
>
>
>
> I’m afraid to change the title of that page now that it has been out there
> so long with links to it, so I just created a Debian 8 page that links to
> it.
>
>
>
> Bote
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Komar, Jason
> *Sent:* Monday, 17 August, 2015 14:51
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] systemd won't enable for automatic
> start of FS
>
>
>
> I couldn't get FreeSWITCH compiled from source to work under systemd on
> Debian Jessie without having the pid file under /usr/local/freeswitch
>
>
>
> Here are the contents of my freeswitch.service file that let me get it
> working if it helps you.
>
>
>
> [Unit]
>
> Description=freeswitch
>
> ;After=syslog.target network.target local-fs.target
>
> After=syslog.target network-online.target local-fs.target
>
>
>
> [Service]
>
> ; service
>
> Type=forking
>
> PIDFile=/usr/local/freeswitch/run/freeswitch.pid
>
> PermissionsStartOnly=true
>
> ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/freeswitch/run
>
> ExecStartPre=/bin/chown freeswitch:daemon /usr/local/freeswitch/run
>
> ExecStart=/usr/local/freeswitch/bin/freeswitch -ncwait -nonat
>
> TimeoutSec=45s
>
> Restart=always
>
> ; exec
>
> WorkingDirectory=/usr/local/freeswitch/run
>
> User=freeswitch
>
> Group=daemon
>
> LimitCORE=infinity
>
> LimitNOFILE=100000
>
> LimitNPROC=60000
>
> ;LimitSTACK=240
>
> LimitRTPRIO=infinity
>
> LimitRTTIME=7000000
>
> IOSchedulingClass=realtime
>
> IOSchedulingPriority=2
>
> CPUSchedulingPolicy=rr
>
> CPUSchedulingPriority=89
>
> UMask=0007
>
>
>
> [Install]
>
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
>
>
> -----
>
> Jason
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com>
> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I saw that ticket where you changed the WorkingDirectory from
> /run/freeswitch to /var/run/freeswitch and I made those changes to mine,
> but it’s still flunky.
>
>
>
> I’ll keep hammering away at it.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Bote
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org [mailto:
> freeswitch-users-bounces at lists.freeswitch.org] *On Behalf Of *Michael
> Jerris
> *Sent:* Monday, 17 August, 2015 14:22
>
>
> *To:* FreeSWITCH Users Help
> *Subject:* Re: [Freeswitch-users] systemd won't enable for automatic
> start of FS
>
>
>
> The ones in tree are only for the packages, you would need to modify those
> to be the correct paths and manually install them.  You can follow the
> patches that went in to the debian packaging for some indication of how to
> install them correctly.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 17, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Bote Man <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> 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
>
> --------
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
> ---
>
> Bote
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Best regards,
>
> Volodymyr
>
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