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Install a Node.js service for systemctl on CentOS 7
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my-service.service
[Unit]
After=network.target
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/node /var/node/my-service/app.js
#Type=forking
Restart=always
StandardOutput=syslog
TimeoutSec=90
SyslogIdentifier=my-service
User=nobody
Group=nobody
Environment=PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
Environment=NODE_ENV=production
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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node-daemon.sh
#! /bin/bash
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup | bash -
yum install -y nodejs gcc-c++ make
sudo mkdir -p /var/node/my-service/
# ... cp project into /var/node/my-service/
cd /var/node/my-service/
npm install
sudo cp my-service.service /etc/systemd/system/
systemctl enable my-service
systemctl start my-service.service
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Addibro commented Nov 9, 2022

I’m doing a similar thing actually and I thought enable would start the service (which will start the js script), but maybe I need to add the start command as well, cuz I can see that the service is enabled but the script doesn’t seem to start 🤪

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