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Question by Richard Perez · Sep 20, 2015 at 01:28 PM · server administration

Wowza Streaming Engine 4.2 and ubuntu 15.04 with Systemd

Hi everybody,

I'm currently using Wowza with ubuntu 15.04 wich use the new service startup system (systemd) and i can't have wowza to start automaticaly.

I have seen this post ( http://www.wowza.com/forums/showthread.php?43080-Ubuntu-15-04-install-Service-fails-to-start-with-vague-error-message) and the workaround but i would like to know if Wowza is planning to support systemd?

alternatively is there a way to configure systemd to start wowza?

Best regards

Richard
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Answer by Daren Johnson · Sep 21, 2015 at 11:36 PM

Hi,

We are planning to support systemd, but there is not timeframe for availability.

Best regards,

Daren
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Hi,

We are planning to support systemd, but there is not timeframe for availability.

Best regards,

Daren


Thank you for your answer,

Is there any temporary workaround available? I tried to build a custom .service file but without success.

Best regards

Richard
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Answer by Daren Johnson · Sep 23, 2015 at 07:37 AM

Hi

There are some workarounds.

1/ you can manually start Wowza by running the following as root

# /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine start

# /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngineManager start

2/ Alternatively, you can reinstall the missing upstart functionality

# apt-get install upstart-sysv

The second option would ensure that Wowza is restarted on machine reboots.

3) A third option would be to try implementing the systemd service. This forum thread/post seems to have something that was reported as working.

Daren
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Hi

There are some workarounds.

1/ you can manually start Wowza by running the following as root

# /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine start

# /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngineManager start

2/ Alternatively, you can reinstall the missing upstart functionality

# apt-get install upstart-sysv

The second option would ensure that Wowza is restarted on machine reboots.

3) A third option would be to try implementing the systemd service. This forum thread/post seems to have something that was reported as working.

Daren


1) Is the solution i currently use.... but it is not very safe in production situation.

2) I tried this but the rollback to upstart give me some weirf behavior of my web server..

3) I just tried this solution and i receive the following error message when trying to activate the service :

administrateur@zircone:/etc/init.d$ sudo systemctl enable WowzaStreamingEngine.service 
Synchronizing state for WowzaStreamingEngine.service with sysvinit using update-rc.d...
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d WowzaStreamingEngine defaults
insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `WowzaStreamingEngine' overrides LSB defaults (0 1 6 S).
Executing /usr/sbin/update-rc.d WowzaStreamingEngine enable
update-rc.d: error: WowzaStreamingEngine Default-Start contains no runlevels, aborting.
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It's ok it works.

I just forgot :

removed symlink /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine
removed symlink /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngineManager


Best regards

Richard
avatar image sal jefferson Richard Perez · Sep 29, 2015 at 07:48 AM 0
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Thanks for the update and glad you got this sorted.

Salvadore

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