<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 14px;" lang="x-western">Hi, I am embarrassed to answer myself after hitting the send button. Of course i should not have put "test.sh" in /root , because the user has no rights to access it... It works now - but now the stopping the service seems a problem. It always goes to failed because the java vm seems to provide  a status=143 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cruisctl.service)           Active: failed          Process: 4811 ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $CRUISCTLOPTIONS (code=exited, status=143)           CGroup: name=systemd:/system/cruisctl.service Regards  (and hoping that the solution will also come to me when i hit the send button) Here is the working script: # # Install # in directory /lib/systemd/system [Unit] Description=Cruise Control After=local-fs.target network.target [Service] Type=simple EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/cruisctl User=cruisctl WorkingDirectory=/var/cruisecontrol ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $CRUISCTLOPTIONS #ExecStart=/tmp/test.sh $CRUISCTLOPTIONS [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Am 23.04.2011 10:03, schrieb Baldur: <blockquote type="cite" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hi all, after doing the simple examples of .service scripts, i was able to run some of my home-brewn  services with fedora 15 beta. However now i tried something advanced (?)  and i have to admit defeat. I have simply no idea how to proceed. I used to run with upstart a script with an "ugly" solution  to  do something like that     su cruisctl -c "servicescript.sh" This was not pretty, however the script did run under the wanted user. Now i tried the same thing with systemd. It worked if tried the ugly solution. I found that systemd has thee User= option, so i tried to avoid the su and start the script with systemed.   But the service doesn't start when i set the "User=" option, it always returns a 203 error. Can somebody tell me what i am doing wrong? Here is my test setup [Unit] Description=Cruise Control After=local-fs.target network.target [Service] Type=simple EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/cruisctl User=cruisctl WorkingDirectory=/var/cruisecontrol #ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $CRUISCTLOPTIONS ExecStart=/root/test.sh $CRUISCTLOPTIONS [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target The test.sh looks like this #!/bin/sh echo "Start" >/tmp/x echo Directory: $(pwd) >>/tmp/x echo Ant Home: $ANT_HOME >>/tmp/x echo $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 >>/tmp/x sleep 60 Error is like that cruisctl.service - Cruise Control           Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cruisctl.service)           Active: failed          Process: 4313 ExecStart=/root/test.sh $CRUISCTLOPTIONS (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)           CGroup: name=systemd:/system/cruisctl.service _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> </blockquote> </div> Am 23.04.2011 10:03, schrieb Baldur: <blockquote cite="mid:4DB287D9.8070101@email.de" type="cite">Hi all, after doing the simple examples of .service scripts, i was able to run some of my home-brewn  services with fedora 15 beta. However now i tried something advanced (?)  and i have to admit defeat. I have simply no idea how to proceed. I used to run with upstart a script with an "ugly" solution  to  do something like that     su cruisctl -c "servicescript.sh" This was not pretty, however the script did run under the wanted user. Now i tried the same thing with systemd. It worked if tried the ugly solution. I found that systemd has thee User= option, so i tried to avoid the su and start the script with systemed.   But the service doesn't start when i set the "User=" option, it always returns a 203 error. Can somebody tell me what i am doing wrong? Here is my test setup [Unit] Description=Cruise Control After=local-fs.target network.target [Service] Type=simple EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/cruisctl User=cruisctl WorkingDirectory=/var/cruisecontrol #ExecStart=/usr/bin/java $CRUISCTLOPTIONS ExecStart=/root/test.sh $CRUISCTLOPTIONS [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target The test.sh looks like this #!/bin/sh echo "Start" >/tmp/x echo Directory: $(pwd) >>/tmp/x echo Ant Home: $ANT_HOME >>/tmp/x echo $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 >>/tmp/x sleep 60 Error is like that cruisctl.service - Cruise Control           Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/cruisctl.service)           Active: failed          Process: 4313 ExecStart=/root/test.sh $CRUISCTLOPTIONS (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)           CGroup: name=systemd:/system/cruisctl.service _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org">systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel</a> </blockquote> </body> </html>