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systemd service not executing the script?


My systemd service is as follows.

/etc/systemd/system/caportal.service

[Unit]
Description=@CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY@
Before=network-pre.target
Wants=network-pre.target
DefaultDependencies=no
Requires=local-fs.target
After=local-fs.target
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/home/pi/test2.sh
RemainAfterExit=yes
[Install]
WantedBy=network.target

/home/pi/test2.sh

#!/bin/sh
echo Hi this working........ > output

It is made executable by sudo chmod 777 /home/pi/test2.sh. I have started the systemd service using sudo systemctl start caportal. It runs successfully.

output of sudo systemctl status caportal

 caportal.service - @CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY@
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/caportal.service; enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Wed 2019-04-10 07:01:15 UTC; 1h 3min ago
  Process: 286 ExecStart=/home/pi/test2.sh (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 286 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/caportal.service
Apr 10 07:01:15 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started @CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY@.

Its showing that the service is working fine but the file output is not written with "Hi this working........ ".

But when we run test2.sh using command `sudo /home/pi/test2.sh', its working fine.

Why the script is not working when used with systemd service?

Solution

Your script is writing to a relative path called output. A relative path does not begin with /; an absolute path begins with /.

The path is relative to the current working directory. Since you did not define WorkingDirectory= and you're running the service as a system service, it defaults to the root directory /. You should be able to find the file at /output (Current working directory / plus the relative path output).

If you are expecting the file to be written at a particular path, you should either specify an absolute path in your script or a WorkingDirectory= under [Service].

Comments (1)

  • +0 – Yeah.. the output is present in root directory — Apr 10, 2019 at 08:19  

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