Turn a manually program start to automatically program start on boot

I have installed osrm on my server in home/myname/osrmif I manually start the process from beyond dir with osrm-routed data/map.osrm it works fine, but unfortunately in foreground and after reboot if have to start it manually again. I tried to install it as a service

[Unit]
Description = starts up the osrm service
After = network.target
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/christian/osrm/
User=christian
ExecStart = /usr/local/bin/osrm-routed osrm-routed data/map.osrm
[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target

But when I start the service I get always error messages like this

 [/etc/systemd/system/osrmstart.service:7] Executable path specifies a directory, ignoring: /usr/local/bin/osrm-routed/ osrm-routed data/map.osrm
Sep 01 14:03:46 ubuntu systemd[1]: osrmstart.service: Service lacks both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing.

What are I am doing wrong. I am very new to Ubuntu.

Thank you for answering to my question:

when i run:

file /usr/local/bin/osrm-routed

i get the following:

/usr/local/bin/osrm-routed: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=767f57fe712d25f03f1b2d18fd541d0253cd86d4, not stripped

i changed my osrmstart.service to:

[Unit]
Description = starts up the osrm service
After = network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/home/christian/osrm/
User=christian
ExecStart = /usr/local/bin/osrm-routed osrm-routed data/map.osrm
[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target

Now, if i first disable, then enable the osrmstart.service and then start the service with sudo systemctl start osrmstart.service: I get no error - but the service is not starting and is not available.

Manually i can start the process when i navigate to my home dir ~/home/osrm and then typing osrm-routed data/map.osrm and Enterthis starts the process - the process is a server, waiting on localhost:port5000 for queries like

geometries=geojson

and returns the way from target to destination,but manually the process is running in forground.

I need the service running in background, also when rebooting the system. Maybe its only a type error - but i tried so many kinds of typings. Maybe my answer helps a bit more, for helping me. Thanks in advance.

Christian

1 Answer

I see several issues here:

1. Code syntax errors your code should look like this:

   [Unit]
   Description=starts up the osrm service
   After=network.target
   [Service]
   Type=daemon
   WorkingDirectory=/home/christian/osrm/
   User=christian
   ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/osrm-routed data/map.osrm
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target

2. /usr/local/bin/osrm-routed appears to be a directory not an executable file.

   • Run file /usr/local/bin/osrm-routed to determine for sure but I think you can know that by merely changing into it.

3. Note: Don't know what type of program your trying to run so Type option could be Type=[simple|daemon|oneshot|forking|notify|idle]

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