Start A Service at Boot

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES Configure-Administer
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SLEs 12. We use a webapp called alfresco. During installation alfresco asks if you want to install a service, we answered yes but it does not start at boot. I suspect it is because of SLES 12 using system. How do we start this webapp at boot using system? I ran systemctl enable alfresco.service but that does not start alfresco at boot. I manually start alfresco by cd /opt/alfresco then ./alfresco.sh start. There is also an alfresco script in /etc/init.d

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Hi
Create a simple systemd sevice file pointing at the init file
in /etc/systemd/system called alfresco.service

# /etc/systemd/system/alfresco.service
#

[Unit]
Description=Start the alfresco web service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "/etc/init.d/alfresco start"
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c "/etc/init.d/alfresco stop"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then start, check and then finally enable if all ok;

systemctl start alfresco.service
systemctl status alfresco.service
(if all ok, then enable to start on a reboot)
systemctl enable alfresco.service

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° LFCS, SUSE Knowledge Partner (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 GNOME 3.10.1 Kernel 3.12.36-38-default
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[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;26243]Hi
Create a simple systemd sevice file pointing at the init file
in /etc/systemd/system called alfresco.service

# /etc/systemd/system/alfresco.service
#

[Unit]
Description=Start the alfresco web service

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c "/etc/init.d/alfresco start"
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c "/etc/init.d/alfresco stop"

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then start, check and then finally enable if all ok;

systemctl start alfresco.service systemctl status alfresco.service (if all ok, then enable to start on a reboot) systemctl enable alfresco.service [QUOTE]

Worked like a charm. Thank you Malcolm