Varnish 5 wont start at boot on Ubuntu 16.04

Asbjorn Taugbol asbjornt at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 12:30:39 CET 2017


Thank you!

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Guillaume Quintard <
guillaume at varnish-software.com> wrote:

> 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 # Note: If systemd is installed, this file is obsolete and ignored.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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