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

Thu Sep 10 02:02:25 MSD 2015

That certainly is helpful, thanks Larry.

I don’t mess around in linux often enough to keep these tools and tricks at the top of mind, but it turned out that FS does the Right Thing when started as root, then drops to the user specified on its command line.

I’ll keep your tips in mind, though.

Thanks.

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From: Larry Morley
Sent: Monday, 07 September, 2015 12:37
Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] systemd won't enable for automatic start of FS

This is really more general information than anything specific to your problem; that said, I'm posting this as my fingers got singed a time or two, courtesy of it.

When I encounter an error slash problem like the one you did, one of the first things I usually do - unless I have a reason not to - is: check to see that the ownership and permissions on the directories a daemon's PID file. log file, etc., are supposed to be written to will allow the daemon (or other program) to actually write from / read to those files. I also check same on any temp directories the program uses and directories containing configuration files.

One way to do this that's relatively safe is this:  say, for example, I had a daemon named "dproc" that was supposed to run as user "dproc", group " dproc", with the. pid file going in /usr/local/xware/run . If I were to run:

sudo -u dproc -g dproc touch /usr/local/xware/dproc.pid

I would know near immediately whether that user and group would have problems accessing that file. And why.

The other that's proved to be helpful is checking the permissions and ownership of a parent directory; using the above example again, if I saw that the output of

ls -ld /usr/local/xware

was

dr-x------  nobody  nobody ...

then I'd probably wind up saving myself a bit of time and grief.

Hope that's of help to someone.

- Larry 

On Aug 17, 2015 4:41 PM, "Bote Man" <bote_radio at botecomm.com> wrote:

This works! I don’t know how, but I will not argue with success. FreeSWITCH even starts after rebooting so this is a Good Thing.

I note that systemctl still emits this erroneous error:

systemctl enable freeswitch

Synchronizing state for freeswitch.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...

Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d freeswitch defaults

Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d freeswitch enable

Failed to execute operation: No such file or directory

It did execute the desired operation which was to start FreeSWITCH at boot time. A Google search revealed a number of complaints from back in May and June that systemd reports that error even though it works. I would have suspected it was fixed by now, but as long as we are aware of it I can live with it.

Thank you!

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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

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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.

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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.

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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 < <mailto:bote_radio at botecomm.com> 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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