We wish to run run_reports.sh automatically upon system startup, instead of having to run it manually. We are currently running on CentOS 7. I tried creating the following Systemd service unit for this:
Description=Galaxy Reports
After=network.target
After=time-sync.target
After=galaxy-web.service
Requires=galaxy-web.service
[Service]
PermissionsStartOnly=true
Type=simple
PIDFile=/home/usern/galaxy/galaxy/reports_webapp.pid
User=galaxy
Group=galaxys
Restart=on-abort
WorkingDirectory=/home/usern/galaxy/galaxy
ExecStart=/home/usern/galaxy/galaxy/run_reports.sh start
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This worked fine whilst the script worked through the long installation processes it always runs, but it then failed, presumably at the final ‘eval’ of the script - I believe Systemd can’t cope with the script becoming a new process.
I tried changing Type to forking and specifying the PID file path, However, this just led to Systemd timing out the startup of the service, during the long run of the initial parts of the script.
Have you any advice on how to implement this? Should I specify an extremely long timeout (~120 minutes) for the “forking” method?