Creating a systemd service for flexget is failing

[leetwanker]

I've followed the guide on creating a systemd service for flexget. It's not starting.

osmc@osmc:~$ systemctl --user status flexget
● flexget.service - FlexGet Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/flexget.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2015-05-03 09:18:27 UTC; 23s ago
  Process: 359 ExecStop=/usr/bin/flexget daemon stop (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
  Process: 355 ExecStart=/usr/bin/flexget daemon start (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
 Main PID: 355 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

/usr/lib/systemd/user/flexget.service

[Unit]
Description=FlexGet Daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/flexget daemon start
ExecStop=/usr/bin/flexget daemon stop
ExecReload=/usr/bin/flexget daemon reload

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

I can start the daemon by running this from the command line:

osmc@osmc:~$ /usr/local/bin/flexget daemon start -d
2015-05-03 09:32 INFO     manager                       Daemonizing...
2015-05-03 09:32 INFO     manager                       Daemonize complete. New PID: 715

I'm running Linux osmc 3.18.10-1-osmc #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 6 15:34:17 UTC 2015 armv7l GNU/Linux on a Raspberry Pi 2.

[cvium]

ExecStart=/usr/bin/flexget daemon start

I use crontab so my experience with systemd and Flexget is rather limited. Have you tried adding the -d flag?

Does it log anything though?

[leetwanker]

I use crontab so my experience with systemd and Flexget is rather limited. Have you tried adding the -d flag?

Does it log anything though?

Tried with -d, still getting the same error. Where would a log file be created, do you happen to know?

osmc@osmc:~$ systemctl --user start flexget

osmc@osmc:~$ systemctl --user status flexget
● flexget.service - FlexGet Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/flexget.service; enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2015-05-03 21:13:21 UTC; 18s ago
  Process: 4755 ExecStop=/usr/bin/flexget daemon stop (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
  Process: 4753 ExecStart=/usr/bin/flexget daemon start -d (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)
 Main PID: 4753 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

osmc@osmc:~$ journalctl --user --user-unit flexget
No journal files were found.

[Marian_Paun]

[Service]
<...>
RemainAfterExit=Yes
ExecStart=/usr/bin/flexget -L info -c your_path_here/config.yml daemon start
ExecStop=.usr/bin/flexget daemon stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[muyaad]

I have it worked and I will try to post how I did it when I get home

[ZileXa]

@muyaad could you please explain what you did?
I think crontab is better because it does not require to have a service running constantly. And I will run Flexget only twice a day. But I would like to know how to do this.

[nikdoof]

This will probably work. Why fight with backgrounding the process and doing start stop when you can get systemd to do the hard work for you.

[Unit]
Description=Flexget Daemon
After=deluged.service

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/flexget start daemon
Type=simple
User=torrent
Group=torrent
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=60s
StartLimitBurst=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Obviously, edit to your needs.

[radovanky]

Hi, please help me enable flexget.service after osmc launch. I'm able to run flexget.service manually:
sudo systemctl start flexget, but after reload service is not running.

osmc@osmc:/lib/systemd/system$ ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  334 Feb  5 00:04 flexget.service

osmc@osmc:/lib/systemd/system$ nano flexget.service
  GNU nano 2.2.6                       File: flexget.service                                                      

[Unit]
Description=FlexGet daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
#User=osmc
#Group=osmc
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/flexget -c /.flexget/config.yml daemon start
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/flexget -c /.flexget/config.yml daemon stop
ExecReload=/usr/local/bin/flexget -c /.flexget/config.yml daemon reload

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Thank you.

[cvium]

Have you enabled the service with systemctl enable flexget?

[radovanky]

It helped, thank you!