I created a service in my Ubuntu instance by adding it to systemd like:
sudo systemctl enable myservice.service
Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/myservice.service → /etc/systemd/system/myservice.service.
the setting inside my myservice.service are:
[Unit]
Description=myserviceService
[Service]
Restart=always
Type=simple
ExecStart=/home/myservice-app/core/core
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
This is the error when I check status:
Feb 02 06:51:16 myservice-ubuntu-app systemd[1]: myservice.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 02 06:51:16 myservice-ubuntu-app systemd[1]: myservice.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 02 06:51:16 myservice-ubuntu-app systemd[1]: myservice.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Feb 02 06:51:16 myservice-ubuntu-app systemd[1]: Stopped myserviceService.
Feb 02 06:51:16 myservice-ubuntu-app systemd[1]: myservice.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Feb 02 06:51:16 myservice-ubuntu-app systemd[1]: myservice.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 02 06:51:16 myservice-ubuntu-app systemd[1]: Failed to start myservice Service.
What am I doing wrong? The service runs properly in foreground with no errors, its just the service that struggles to run.
If your Go program is able to start normally (meaning not as a service, but manually from command line), then check if this is a policy issue.
For instance, a SELinux policy could prevent your Go binary to start if it is not installed in a system path (like /usr/local/bin).
Or the service definition uses relative instead of absolute paths (same here).
Or with the wrong user.