Cannot create odoo-8(openerp) service in ubuntu 16.04

Question

I want to create an odoo instance version 8 in ubuntu 16. Config and service files are created, i am adding permission of files below.

• drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 24 18:40 .
• drwxr-xr-x 3 sic sic 4096 May 24 17:40 ..
• drwxr-xr-x 8 sic sic 4096 Apr 11 08:54 odoo
• -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 319123456 May 24 18:38 odoo_sic.tar
• drwxrwxrwx 23 sic sic 4096 May 24 17:40 orchid_addons
• drwxrwxrwx 9 sic sic 4096 May 24 17:40 orchid_excel_reports

Config file: - -rw-r----- 1 sic sic 311 May 25 10:12 001-sic-live-server.conf

Init file: - -rwxr-xr-x 1 sic sic 2219 May 25 10:16 001-sic-live-server

when i try to start the service log file is not created, also no service started message

Answer 1

Follow My steps:

1 Create conf file

sudo nano /etc/odoo8.conf

2 Create conf file data

[options]
admin_passwd = your_strong_admin_password
db_host = False
db_port = False
db_user = odoo8
db_password = False
addons_path = /opt/odoo8/addons
logfile = /var/log/odoo8.log
xmlrpc_port = 8010

3 Create service

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/odoo8.service

4

[Unit]
Description=Odoo 8
Requires=postgresql.service
After=postgresql.service

[Service]
Type=simple
PermissionsStartOnly=true
User=odoo8
Group=odoo8
SyslogIdentifier=odoo8
ExecStart=/opt/odoo8/venv/bin/python2 /opt/odoo8/odoo-bin -c /etc/odoo8.conf

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then enable service.

sudo systemctl enable odoo8.service