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Question by Paul Gration · Aug 16 at 02:47 PM · server administration

Wowza deb/rpm systemd service

When installing either the deb or rpm for Wowza Streaming Engine 4.7.7 it seems to add sysv init scripts (/etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine and /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngineManager). However I can't seem to find a way to get these to auto start on boot with Ubuntu 18.04.

There also appears to be systemd init files that get copied to /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/bin/WowzaStreamingEngine.service and /usr/local/WowzaStreamingEngine/manager/bin/WowzaStreamingEngineManager.service but these aren't linked to/installed anywhere that systemd can make use of them which is strange..within these service files there's no stop link defined so the process is sent a TERM signal and the service files seem to execute a different startup script for Wowza compared to the sysv files.

When trying to add the sysv scripts to systemd with `systemctl enable WowzaStreamingEngine` I get the following output despite there being `# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5` defined within the `BEGIN INIT INFO` section of the init script:


"WowzaStreamingEngine.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install. Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable WowzaStreamingEngine update-rc.d: error: WowzaStreamingEngine Default-Start contains no runlevels, aborting."

I'm investigating this as ansible isn't able to enable the WowzaStreamingEngine/WowzaStreamingEngineManager services on boot using the `service` module, similarly it complains of missing runlevels.

Thanks in advance

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Answer by Alex C · Sep 04 at 09:42 PM

Hello @Paul Gration,

Based on your issue description it seems like there might have been something permission or system-level going on when you installed Wowza.

I would recommend uninstalling Wowza Engine, restarting your linux system and trying to install using the latest installer available from here:

https://www.wowza.com/pricing/installer

I checked a local Wowza install on a CentOS linux and did nto see the /etc/init.d/WowzaStreamingEngine script.

Regards,

Alex C.

Wowza Support

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