It’s a permissions problem most likely. systemd should start FS as root, FS creates any directories and files that it needs, increases runtime priority, and claims ports, then FS drops its own privileges to those specified by the –u and –g switches. It’s worth checking the ownership and permissions of the files and directories that FS has already created (such as freeswitch.pid) to avoid further gnashing of teeth. If you are using systemd, you control processes with the ‘systemctl’ command, not ‘service’. Systemd has the ability to restart FS if it crashes and other useful things so I recommend getting up to speed on it as it seems to be quite robust. Hope this helps. Bote From: rick.jarvis@magicmail.mooo.com Sent: Monday, 19 October, 2015 17:14 Subject: Re: [Freeswitch-users] systemd Nothing in /var/log/freeswitch/freeswitch.log Results of running it at command line below. I’ve tried running it with ‘c’ instead of ‘ncwait’ as well, but it complains about the pid root@voice:/etc/systemd/system# /usr/bin/freeswitch -u freeswitch -g freeswitch -ncwait -nonat -rp 1349 Backgrounding. FreeSWITCH[1348] Error starting system! pid:1349 root@voice:/etc/systemd/system# /usr/bin/freeswitch -u freeswitch -g freeswitch -c -nonat -rp Cannot open pid file /var/run/freeswitch/freeswitch.pid. On 19 Oct 2015, at 22:01, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: Something is preventing fs from starting and systemd keeps trying, but eventually gives up. Can you start it by hand with the same parameters? Can you check the freeswitch.log and see if that says anything? <mailto:rick.jarvis@magicmail.mooo.com> rick.jarvis@magicmail.mooo.com wrote: This is my first Jessie install, so trying to get my head around systemd. I’ve installed from repos, and it all works fine with ‘service start freeswitch’ as I used to use. However, as update-rc.d doesn’t work for starting on boot, I figured this is due to the startup changes in jessie. So I followed this to the letter: https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/FreeSWITCH+1.6+Video<https://freeswitch.org/confluence/display/FREESWITCH/FreeSWITCH+1.6+Video> But no joy: root@voice:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl start freeswitch Job for freeswitch.service failed. See 'systemctl status freeswitch.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details. root@voice:/etc/systemd/system# systemctl status freeswitch.service ● freeswitch.service - freeswitch Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/freeswitch.service; disabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Mon 2015-10-19 21:47:53 BST; 26s ago Process: 1215 ExecStart=/usr/bin/freeswitch -u freeswitch -g freeswitch -ncwait -nonat -rp (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Oct 19 21:47:53 voice systemd[1]: freeswitch.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Oct 19 21:47:53 voice systemd[1]: Failed to start freeswitch. Oct 19 21:47:53 voice systemd[1]: Unit freeswitch.service entered failed state. Oct 19 21:47:53 voice systemd[1]: freeswitch.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start. Oct 19 21:47:53 voice systemd[1]: Failed to start freeswitch. Oct 19 21:47:53 voice systemd[1]: Unit freeswitch.service entered failed state. What am I doing wrong? ---------------------------------------------------- Alternatives: ---------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: consulting@freeswitch.org http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com Official FreeSWITCH Sites http://www.freeswitch.org http://confluence.freeswitch.org http://www.cluecon.com FreeSWITCH-users mailing list FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users http://www.freeswitch.org -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici <mailto:covici@ccs.covici.com> covici@ccs.covici.com _________________________________________________________________________ Professional FreeSWITCH Consulting Services: <mailto:consulting@freeswitch.org> consulting@freeswitch.org <http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com/> http://www.freeswitchsolutions.com Official FreeSWITCH Sites <http://www.freeswitch.org/> http://www.freeswitch.org <http://confluence.freeswitch.org/> http://confluence.freeswitch.org <http://www.cluecon.com/> http://www.cluecon.com FreeSWITCH-users mailing list <mailto:FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org> FreeSWITCH-users@lists.freeswitch.org <http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users> http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/freeswitch-users UNSUBSCRIBE:http:// <http://lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users> lists.freeswitch.org/mailman/options/freeswitch-users <http://www.freeswitch.org/> http://www.freeswitch.org