starting nodebb with systemd

teh_g

I recently moved up to Ubuntu 16.04.1. I see a nice example of Upstart in the documentation, but nothing for a systemd script.

Does anyone have an example script I can use to manage the NodeBB service, have it start at boot, etc?

PitaJ

@teh_g this should be helpful: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/47715

teh_g

@PitaJ said in starting nodebb with systemd:

@teh_g this should be helpful: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/47715

In Upstart I was using node loader.js --no-silent --no-daemon, should I use that same command for the ExecStart= parameter?

PitaJ

@teh_g try it

Mikael Jenkler

This is what i do when running my docker pkg in systemd with nodebb (app.js)

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker run --entrypoint su --name nodejs-nimbus-jenkler-com --net local --volumes-from server_nodejs -w /server/nodejs jenkler/nodejs nobody -s /usr/bin/node app.js
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker kill nodejs-nimbus-jenkler-com
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker rm nodejs-nimbus-jenkler-com
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 10
ExecStop=/usr/bin/docker stop nodejs-nimbus-jenkler-com
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=120s
TimeoutStartSec=0

I start /usr/bin/node app.js as the nobody user! If somebody else runs nodebb in docker with another take, plz speak up. The app.js way works fine for me except for restarting via the webb ui. I guss i need loader.js for that

Note

If i use loader.js instead of app.js the application wont exit correctly when systemd runs ExecStop. I get some strange exit code and docker get an error. I guess thats because loader is a wrapper for app.js! Correct me if I am wrong!

To answer the question run:

ExecStart=/usr/bin/node app.js

I guess you need to change dir also. I do that with docker -w /server/nodejs jenkler/nodejs.

julian

You pass in --no-daemon and --no-silent because Upstart works best if the program itself is run interactively, with output sent to stdout.

However, I don't recall if systemd is different...

If it works best run interactively, use --no-daemon.

If it reads output from stdout (which I believe it does), then use --no-silent.