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@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