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authorErik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>2017-07-20 06:47:57 +1000
committerErik de Castro Lopo <erikd@mega-nerd.com>2017-07-22 08:34:56 +1000
commit2fac03e68259ddd0d5859dee9314d73523989123 (patch)
tree1500d7acec5114f03c53f5aa0765aa5e257f6387
parentdaemon: Add ability to write a PID file (diff)
downloadmonero-2fac03e68259ddd0d5859dee9314d73523989123.tar.xz
Update monerod systemd service file
Make monerod use a PID file and let systemd know where that file is.
-rw-r--r--utils/systemd/monerod.service11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/utils/systemd/monerod.service b/utils/systemd/monerod.service
index 182878ebb..12395eb8c 100644
--- a/utils/systemd/monerod.service
+++ b/utils/systemd/monerod.service
@@ -8,15 +8,10 @@ Group=monero
WorkingDirectory=~
Type=forking
-ExecStart=/usr/bin/monerod --config-file /etc/monerod.conf --detach
+PIDFile=/var/run/monerod.pid
-# This is necessary because monerod does not yet support
-# writing a PID file, which means systemd tries to guess the PID
-# by default, but it guesses wrong (sometimes, depending on
-# random timing of events), because the daemon forks twice.
-# The ultimate fix is for the daemon to write a PID file, and
-# a workaround is to disable the guessing feature in systemd.
-GuessMainPID=no
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/monerod --config-file /etc/monerod.conf \
+ --detach --pidfile /var/run/monerod.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target