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Missing '='. in Debian service

I've created this service in /etc/systemd/system/webapp.service

in a 

Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:    10

This is the content:

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

[Service]
Type=notify
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/start-webapp.sh
ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/stop-webapp.sh
ExecReload=/usr/local/bin/reload-webapp.sh
StandardOutput=null

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Alias=webapp.service

I try to startd the service using:

sudo systemctl start webapp.service

But when I do 

sudo systemctl status webapp.service

I got this error:

● webapp.service - webapp daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/webapp.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)

Jun 01 11:31:48 localhost systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/webapp.service:8: Missing '='.
Jun 01 11:31:52 localhost systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/webapp.service:8: Missing '='.
Jun 01 11:35:21 localhost systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/webapp.service:8: Missing '='.
Jun 01 11:35:31 localhost systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/webapp.service:8: Missing '='.

and

   admin@localhost:/etc/systemd/system$ cat -vetn webapp.service 
         1  [Unit]$
         2  Description=webapp daemon$
         3  [Service]$
         4  Type=simple$
         5  ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/start-webapp.sh$
         6  ExecStop=/usr/local/bin/stop-webapp.sh$
         7  ExecReload=/usr/local/bin/reload-webapp.sh$
         8  [Install]$
         9  WantedBy=multi-user.target$
Solution

  • Your config content seems nothing wrong, so I have copied it to my debian server and try to run it, and it's really ok.

    But it's strange that the stdout of cat -vetn webapp.service is not the exactly content of your original config, so would you mind to remove the original config and do it again ?

    refer: https://wiki.debian.org/systemd/Services

    1. redo:

      mv webapp.service /tmp/webapp.service vi webapp.service # check characters

    2. After creating or modifying any unit files, we must tell systemd that we want it to look for new things:

      systemctl daemon-reload

    3. Then, tell systemd to enable it, so that it will start every time we boot:

      systemctl enable myservice.service

    4. Finally, start it:

      systemctl start myservice.service