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utop
utop

Reputation: 111

Cannot execute dotnet app as daemon service

I'm trying to run my dotnet application as a daemon service, the first steps that I did are:

  1. Created the application using NetCore 2.0
  2. Build the binary using dotnet publish bot

inside Ubuntu terminal I created an user for run the daemon:

sudo useradd -s /sbin/nologin dotnetuser
sudo mkdir /var/bot
sudo cp -R /home/publish/* /var/bot
sudo chown -R dotnetuser:dotnetuser /var/bot

so I created a custom systemd unit file under: /etc/systemd/system/netcore-console-bot.service directory:

[Unit]
Description= Bot console application
DefaultDependencies = no

[Service]
Type = oneshot
RemainAfterExit = no
ExecStart= /var/bot/ bot.dll
WorkingDirectory = /var/bot
User = dotnetuser
Group = dotnetuser

[install]

I tried to execute the daemon using the systemctl status command: start netcore-console-bot.service

but I got:

netcoreconsole-bot.service: Main process exited, code=exit

What I did wrong?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 634

Answers (1)

Jamie
Jamie

Reputation: 3357

I am pretty sure that the only change that you need to make from my testing is making sure to tell dotnet to run the dll. My paths should be pretty close to what you need to do. Alternatively you could use a self-contained deployment when you publish and package the runtime with the app. 

[Unit]
Description= Bot console application
DefaultDependencies = no

[Service]
Type = oneshot
RemainAfterExit = no
ExecStart= /usr/bin/dotnet /var/bot/bot.dll
WorkingDirectory = /var/bot
User = dotnetuser
Group = dotnetuser

[install]

Upvotes: 1

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