Why systemd is not loading environment file

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asked 2013-02-12 17:10:59 -0500

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Hello, I have this:

cat /etc/sysconfig/pagekite 
OPTIONS="--optdir=/etc/pagekite.d"
PK_UID="daemon"
PK_GID="daemon"
PK_LOGFILE="/var/log/pagekite/pagekite.log"

Then I have this systemd unit:

cat /usr/lib/systemd/system/pagekite.service
[Unit]
Description=PageKite makes localhost servers visible to the world
Documentation=man:pagekite(1) http://www.pagekite.net

[Service]
Type=forking
EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/pagekite
PIDFile=/var/run/pagekite.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pagekite --clean --logfile=$PK_LOGFILE --runas=$PK_UID:$PK_GID --pidfile=/var/run/pagekite.pid $OPTIONS --daemonize
ExecReload=kill -HUP `cat /var/run/pagekite.pid`

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Everytime I try to start the service, it is apparently not substituting variables and my program is ending with:

Error: 'getpwnam(): name not found: $PK_UID'

Because it tries to find UID "$PK_UID" instead of substituted "pagekite".

What is wrong here? I am pretty sure I am doing it correctly according to the docs. Thanks.

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Why not define these things in configuration files, to be read at runtime? Your implementation here seems fragile.

randomuser ( 2013-02-12 19:14:55 -0500 )edit

I want to keep backward compabitility with upstream and also support RHEL6/RHEL5. I want to use EnvifonmentFile. Now, do you see any issues here? Why it does not work?

lzap ( 2013-02-13 02:27:16 -0500 )edit

Are you sure? Because files are not parsed with Bash in case of systemd. It's not evaluated, it's interpreted by systemd itself.

lzap ( 2013-02-13 02:50:13 -0500 )edit

Ok now it works, I was changing the unit file and I was ignoring this Warning: Unit file changed on disk, 'systemctl --system daemon-reload' recommended.

lzap ( 2013-02-13 03:03:47 -0500 )edit

This is working unit file.

[Unit]
Description=PageKite makes localhost servers visible to the world
Documentation=man:pagekite(1) http://www.pagekite.net

[Service]
Type=forking
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/pagekite
PIDFile=/var/run/pagekite.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pagekite --clean --logfile=${PK_LOGFILE} --runas=${PK_UID}:${PK_GID} --pidfile=/var/run/pagekite.pid ${OPTIONS} --daemonize
ExecReload=kill -HUP $MAINPID

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I was missing curly braces.

lzap ( 2013-02-13 03:24:28 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-02-14 10:18:03 -0500

lennart
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You want ${FOOBAR} instead of $FOOBAR if shall be resolved as part of a word.

See the discussion about this in systemd.service(5), the part about ExectStart=.

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answered 2015-02-20 05:58:45 -0500

nemd
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Don't use quotes in environment file.

cat /etc/sysconfig/pagekite 
OPTIONS=--optdir=/etc/pagekite.d
PK_UID=daemon PK_GID=daemon
PK_LOGFILE=/var/log/pagekite/pagekite.log

will work

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