[Freeswitch-users] Starting freeswitch at boot with systemd

[Michael Jerris]

I believe in 1.6.8 we have the systemd stuff working cleanly now

> On May 10, 2016, at 5:33 PM, William Colls <william at williamcollsassoc.ca> wrote:
> 
> debian 8.4 64 bit
> freeswitch 1.6.7 built locally from source
> 
> According to Debian 8 (jessie) Admin manual the preferred method of 
> starting something at boot time is to use systemd. In the 
> freeswitch/debian directory provided with the sources there is a 
> freeswitch.service example provided.
> 
> I have copied the provided example to /lib/systemd/system, and tweaked 
> it to reflect my setup, and enabled it.
> 
> ;;;;; Author: Travis Cross <tc at traviscross.com>
> 
> [Unit]
> Description=freeswitch
> After=syslog.target network.target local-fs.target
> 
> [Service]
> ; service
> Type=forking
> PIDFile=/var/run/freeswitch/freeswitch.pid
> EnvironmentFile=-/etc/default/freeswitch
> ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/freeswitch -u freeswitch -g freeswitch -ncwait 
> -nonat
> TimeoutSec=45s
> Restart=always
> ; exec
> User=freeswitch
> Group=freeswitch
> LimitCORE=infinity
> LimitNOFILE=100000
> LimitNPROC=60000
> LimitSTACK=240K
> LimitRTPRIO=infinity
> LimitRTTIME=7000000
> IOSchedulingClass=realtime
> IOSchedulingPriority=2
> CPUSchedulingPolicy=rr
> CPUSchedulingPriority=89
> UMask=0007
> 
> 
> [Install]
> WantedBy=multi-user.target
> 
> ; end of freeswitch.service
> 
> However, when trying to start freeswitch, it fails with the following 
> errors.
> 
> ● freeswitch.service - freeswitch
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/freeswitch.service; enabled)
>    Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Tue 2016-05-10 16:59:16 
> EDT; 12s ago
>   Process: 1179 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/freeswitch -u freeswitch -g 
> freeswitch -ncwait -nonat (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
> 
> May 10 16:59:16 freeswitch systemd[1]: freeswitch.service: control 
> process exited, code=exited status=1
> May 10 16:59:16 freeswitch systemd[1]: Failed to start freeswitch.
> May 10 16:59:16 freeswitch systemd[1]: Unit freeswitch.service entered 
> failed state.
> May 10 16:59:16 freeswitch systemd[1]: freeswitch.service start request 
> repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
> May 10 16:59:16 freeswitch systemd[1]: Failed to start freeswitch.
> May 10 16:59:16 freeswitch systemd[1]: Unit freeswitch.service entered 
> failed state.
> 
> I have very limited experience with systemd. I have the documentation 
> from the Debian Admin Manual, but not much else.
> 
> I did successfully add another service to systemd. Initially I had the 
> same error message "xxx.service start request repeated too quickly, 
> refusing to start." and traced the problem to the service file pointing 
> to the wrong place for one of the listed files. I have verified that all 
> of the files do exist, and have suitable permissions.
> 
> Any as where I should go from here appreciated.
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> 
> William
> 
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