Hi, I am using CentOS 7 and tried to start the freeswitch with systemctl start freeswitch. It is working with freeswitch -nc but the systemctl start freeswitch is using the freeswitch:daemon user, a shown below root@localhost bin]# systemctl status freeswitch.service ● freeswitch.service - freeswitch Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/freeswitch.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Thu 2019-11-21 09:05:16 EST; 8s ago Process: 4251 ExecStart=/usr/bin/freeswitch -u freeswitch -g daemon -ncwait $DAEMON_OPTS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 4249 ExecStartPre=/bin/chown -R freeswitch:daemon /var/run/freeswitch/ (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Process: 4248 ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/freeswitch/ (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: freeswitch.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1 Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start freeswitch. Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit freeswitch.service entered failed state. Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: freeswitch.service failed. Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: freeswitch.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart. Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopped freeswitch. Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for freeswitch.service Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Failed to start freeswitch. Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: Unit freeswitch.service entered failed state. Nov 21 09:05:16 localhost.localdomain systemd[1]: freeswitch.service failed. Although permissions of the folders the below folders are set for the user freeswitch drwxr-xr-x 13 freeswitch daemon 4096 Nov 17 15:36 /etc/freeswitch/ drwxr-x--- 2 freeswitch daemon 40 Nov 21 09:05 /var/run/freeswitch/ drwxr-xr-x 13 freeswitch daemon 4096 Nov 17 15:36 /etc/freeswitch/ -rwxr-xr-x. 1 freeswitch daemon 28336 Aug 20 15:08 /usr/bin/freeswitch