Varnish 5 wont start at boot on Ubuntu 16.04

Guillaume Quintard guillaume at varnish-software.com
Wed Feb 8 12:20:12 CET 2017


systemctl enable varnish

?

But I thought the debian policy what to automatically start service though.

-- 
Guillaume Quintard

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Asbjorn Taugbol <asbjornt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Varnish 5 was installed from .deb package (dpkg -i
> varnish_5.0.0-1_amd64.deb) and with
>
> #service varnish start
>
> it starts and does its things very well. However, upon reboot it doesnt
> start automatically. There may be some mixup between old /etc/init.d stuff
> and newer systemd in debian/ubuntu. Here is some output for debugging this
> after a reboot:
>
> ----------------------
> root at 2:~# service varnish status
> ● varnish.service - Varnish Cache, a high-performance HTTP accelerator
>    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/varnish.service; disabled; vendor
> preset:
>   Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/varnish.service.d
>            └─override.conf
>    Active: inactive (dead)
>
> root at 2:~# journalctl -xe|grep varnish
>
> root at 2:~# cat /etc/systemd/system/varnish.service.d/override.conf
> [Service]
> ExecStart=
> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/varnishd -a :80 -a :9443 -a :9444 -T localhost:6082 -f
> /etc/varnish/default.vcl -S /etc/varnish/secret -s malloc,256m
>
> root at 2:~# cat /etc/default/varnish
> # Configuration file for Varnish Cache.
> #
> # /etc/init.d/varnish expects the variables $DAEMON_OPTS, $NFILES and
> $MEMLOCK
> # to be set from this shell script fragment.
> #
> # Note: If systemd is installed, this file is obsolete and ignored.  You
> will
> # need to copy /lib/systemd/system/varnish.service to
> /etc/systemd/system/ and
> # edit that file.
>
> # Should we start varnishd at boot?  Set to "no" to disable.
> START=yes
>
> # Maximum number of open files (for ulimit -n)
> NFILES=131072
>
> # Maximum locked memory size (for ulimit -l)
> # Used for locking the shared memory log in memory.  If you increase log
> size,
> # you need to increase this number as well
> MEMLOCK=82000
>
> #DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80 \
> DAEMON_OPTS="-a :80,:9443,:9444 \
>              -T localhost:6082 \
>              -f /etc/varnish/default.vcl \
>              -S /etc/varnish/secret \
>              -s malloc,256m"
>
> root at 2:/etc# locate S01varnish
> /etc/rc2.d/S01varnish
> /etc/rc3.d/S01varnish
> /etc/rc4.d/S01varnish
> /etc/rc5.d/S01varnish
>
> root at 2:/etc# ls -l rc2.d/S01varnish
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jan 27 14:39 rc2.d/S01varnish ->
> ../init.d/varnish
>
> root at 2:~# /etc/init.d/varnish start
> [ ok ] Starting varnish (via systemctl): varnish.service.
> root at 2:~# <and all is well again>
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Any input on this is highly appreciated.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Asbjorn
>
>
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