I recently moved to Debian 8 "Jessie" which now use systemd and I can't find a way to run multiple redis instances.
I found out there is a /lib/systemd/system/redis-server.service
file to start redis-server on reboot. So I created a new file call /lib/systemd/system/redis-server-2.service
with this content:
[Unit]
Description=Advanced key-value store
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis-2.conf
TimeoutStopSec=0
Restart=always
User=redis
Group=redis
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
But when I try to start the service like this: service redis-server-2 start
I get this error:
Job for redis-server-2.service failed. See 'systemctl status redis-server-2.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
And systemctl status redis-server-2.service
give me:
● redis-server-2.service - Advanced key-value store
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/redis-server-2.service; disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Sat 2015-10-10 11:09:54 CEST; 33s ago
Process: 2473 ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis-2.conf (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 2371 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 10 11:09:54 server101 systemd[1]: redis-server-2.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Oct 10 11:09:54 server101 systemd[1]: Failed to start Advanced key-value store.
Oct 10 11:09:54 server101 systemd[1]: Unit redis-server-2.service entered failed state.
Oct 10 11:09:54 server101 systemd[1]: redis-server-2.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Oct 10 11:09:54 server101 systemd[1]: Failed to start Advanced key-value store.
Oct 10 11:09:54 server101 systemd[1]: Unit redis-server-2.service entered failed state.
which is not really helping me.
But if I run /usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis-2.conf
my redis instance start correctly.
So any idea why systemd don't what to start this instance by itself ?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Best Answer
Like suggested by Michael Hampton, I checked the syslog and found that:
So I just had to do this to fix the issue: