systemd service on Linux for edison for Node

Question

I've got the following service that I'm trying to run on startup. I've made a service file:

[Unit]
Description=Denny node server start
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/root
Type=forking
Restart=always
StandardOutput=syslog
User=nobody                                 
Group=nobody                                
RemainAfterExit=true                        
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /home/root/server.js
KillMode=process          
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
[Install]                 
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I've dropped this in /etc/systemd/system/ then I run

systemctl daemon-reload

then

systemctl start denny

Nothing. No server is started up. Ok, I check on it:

root@denny:~# systemctl status denny

I get back:

● denny.service - Denny node server start
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/denny.service; enabled)
   Active: active (exited) (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2015-02-13 17:13:21 UTC; 29min ago
 Main PID: 225 (code=exited, status=8)
   CGroup: /system.slice/denny.service

Feb 13 17:41:40 denny systemd[1]: Started Denny node server start.

I may be mis-remembering but seems to be exactly what I did on Debian and it worked fine, i.e. it kept the service running and acting as it should. Am I missing something in this .service file that would tell the default Linux for edison to keep this running?

Answer 1

This answer only works with the Node.js answer but a solution (and the one I went with) was to place my node application in /node_app_slot in the filesystem with the following package.json also in the /node_app_slot:

{
  "name": "sample",
  "description": "",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "main": "main.js",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=0.10.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
  }
}

This allows the XDK daemon to pick up and run the Node app on boot. Fairly painless and simple but not super well documented.