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servicerediscentos7
Prabhakar Shanmugam
Prabhakar Shanmugam

Reputation: 6144

unable to run redis-server as a service on centos

On a centos 7 I installed redis using the regular wget, make and make install commands.

While I am able to do a command

$redis-server redis.conf

and it works nicely.

But if I try 

systemctl start redis-server

or 

sudo service redis-server start/restart

it says

Failed to issue method call: Unit redis-server.service failed to load: No such file or directory.

How can I fix this. I need to run redis-server as a service.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5983

Answers (2)

Jim Dennis
Jim Dennis

Reputation: 17500

It would be better to install Redis via an RPM (package) rather than just performing a wget of the sources and building them. You might find a suitable version in the "extra packages for Enterprise Linux" EPEL collection. Just add the appropriate repositories to your Yum configuration and use yum commands to update your package indexes and query them to see if you have the Redis server version you're interested in. Here's a guide on How to install redis server on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 using EPEL

Another option would be to build your own RPM using a .spec file. Rather than trying to write your own from scratch you might try something like remicollet/remirepo's redis.spec as a starting point (for version 3.0.7) or search around for other RPMs or .spec files. However the big deal is that you need the redis.service and redis.init configuration files that are used to describe how to run a Redis server to the systemd system.

Upvotes: 0

user5243788
user5243788

Reputation:

You can try:

sudo systemctl enable redis-server 

sudo service redis-server start

You can check that redis or redis-server right. May be You need to restart Your System after sudo systemctl enable redis-server

Upvotes: 3

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