I am trying to create a new systemd unit template file that will be used to start several instances of a server program, each running out of a different directory. i.e. I need the ExecStart parameter to be different depending on the instance.
I have tried making the path to the instance be the instance name like the following. I have the following unit file /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]:
[Unit]
Description=server instance '%I'
Requires=...
Wants=...
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=%I/bin/server.sh
PIDFile=%I/server.pid
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
I do a daemon-reload:
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
And I try to start an instance with:
$ sudo systemctl start myserver@/path/to/instance1.service
I get an error from this saying look at the status for details. So, I do:
$ sudo systemctl status myserver@/path/to/instance1.service
I see an error that the ExecStart path is not absolute:
May 17 16:04:46 myhost systemd[1]: [/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]:9] \
Executable path is not absolute, ignoring: %I/bin/server.sh
May 17 16:04:46 myhost systemd[1]: [email protected] lacks \
both ExecStart= and ExecStop= setting. Refusing.
Is there a way to parameterize the path to the ExecStart binary (and PIDFile)? Am I stuck making a separate unit file for every instance?
