Here is what I have, that works for me. It also has a sysv init script. Repo is at GitHub, and I also have a brief blog post with links to other possible solutions I found. There can only be one daemon process running: that is managed by the PID lock file, like most other … Read more
From your mention of Upstart I will assume that this question is for a service being run on an Ubuntu server. On an Ubuntu server an upstart job is really the simplest and most convenient option for creating an always on service that starts up at the right time and can be stopped or reloaded … Read more
The reason, it does not complete the startup sequence is, that for Type forking your startup process is expected to fork and exit (see $ man systemd.service – search for forking). Simply use only the main process, do not daemonize One option is to do less. With systemd, there is often no need to create … Read more