Ubuntu 16 systemd service on boot

servicesystemdubuntu-16.04

I have a Ubuntu 16.04 machine. I have written a very simple systemd service.

The purpose of this is to create a service that will start once the booting process is done and run a python script. It should also restart the python script if the python script crashes.

This is how my systemd script looks like.

[Unit]
Description=My Python Script
Requires=multi-user.target
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type = forking
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/my/python/script/
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /path/to/my/python/script/mypythonscript.py
Restart=always

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This script has been written using this tutorial. I followed the steps there just changed names.

I now have a service that I can stat manually. If I do sudo service myservice start I am able to start my service. However, the service does not start when the machine boots. It needs to be started manually.

Do you know how I can fix that?

What is the correct way to have a service start after the machine boots, on a Ubuntu 16.04 OS?

Thanks!

Best Answer

Did you enable the service? 

systemctl enable myservice

should suffice.

You can check it running systemctl status myservice, it should tell you right there if the service is enabled or not.

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