[systemd-devel] Installing gitlab

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 10:51 +0100, Marwan Rabbâa wrote:
> that is not very useful for me. /var/www/gitlab/script/sidekiq is just
> a litle startup script for sidekiq
> ********************************************
> #!/usr/bin/env sh
> 
> 
> cd /var/www/gitlab
> /usr/local/bin/bundle exec sidekiq -q
> post_receive,mailer,system_hook,project_web_hook,gitlab_shell,common,default -e production -P /var/run/gitlab-sidekiq.pid -d -L /var/www/gitlab/log/sidekiq.log >> /var/www/gitlab/log/sidekiq.log 2>&1
> ********************************************
> 
> When I run this script in a tty, I have a 0 exit code, I presume it
> works (the process behind is started).

The way sidekiq is started, it forks itself as a daemon, and the parent
process exits.

Because you didn't specify the Type= option in the
gitlab-sidekiq.service file, systemd assumes the default: Type=simple

This means that systemd expects the main process to just start, and keep
running forever. (systemd handles the forking)

So when the parent process exits after forking, systemd assumes that the
service failed.

To fix this, you should use Type=forking in your gitlab-sidekiq.service
file.

I recommend you look at the systemd.service(5) manual page for more
details.


-- 
Mathieu