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systemd service files for running TeamCity (create in /usr/lib/systemd/system)
[Unit]
Description=TeamCity Build Agent
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=$AGENT_HOME/logs/buildAgent.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sudo -u teamcity $AGENT_HOME/bin/agent.sh start
ExecStop=/usr/bin/sudo -u teamcity $AGENT_HOME/bin/agent.sh stop
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
[Unit]
Description=TeamCity Server
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=$TEAMCITY_HOME/logs/teamcity-server.pid
; Make sure the CATALINA_PID env variable is setup in $TEAMCITY_HOME/bin/catalina.sh
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sudo -u teamcity $TEAMCITY_HOME/bin/teamcity-server.sh start
ExecStop=/usr/bin/sudo -u teamcity $TEAMCITY_HOME/bin/teamcity-server.sh stop
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
@cm-rudolph
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Instead of using sudo, you should define a separate line in the service section containing User=teamcity.

@jordigg
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jordigg commented Feb 3, 2016

Do you guys have the same problem?
http://serverfault.com/questions/660063/teamcity-build-agent-gets-killed-by-systemd-when-upgrading

TeamCity Agent service is killed once the updated is performed. Do you know any way to overcome this issue?

@Sauraus
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Sauraus commented Mar 1, 2017

The kill is part of the auto-update process with a proper systemctl config file it will restart just fine, yhis is the systemctl control file generated from our TeamCity Chef cookbook:

[Unit]
Description=TeamCity Agent
After=network.target

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/teamcity-agent/bin/agent.sh start
Type=forking
RemainAfterExit=yes
User=teamcity
Group=users
SyslogIdentifier=teamcity_agent
PrivateTmp=yes
PIDFile=/opt/teamcity-agent/logs/buildAgent.pid
ExecStop=/opt/teamcity-agent/bin/agent.sh stop
RestartSec=5
Restart=on-failure

@alst74
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alst74 commented Sep 11, 2017

How do you normally install these unitfiles? Copy them to /etc/system/systemd? When I did the services was "masked". Basically I was trying this way:

cp teamcity*.service /etc/systemd/system/
chmod 664 /etc/systemd/system/teamcity*.service
systemctl enable teamcity-server
systemctl enable teamcity-agent

[root@master ~]# systemctl list-unit-files|grep -i teamcity
teamcity-agent.service                        masked
teamcity-server.service                       masked

@oschlueter
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@alst74:

$ cp teamcity-agent.service /lib/systemd/system
$ systemctl enable teamcity-agent
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/teamcity-agent.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/teamcity-agent.service.
$ systemctl list-unit-files|grep -i teamcity
teamcity-agent.service                        enabled 

@rpetti-ot
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rpetti-ot commented Aug 29, 2022

I've tried multiple variations on the systemd unit file, but it still doesn't seem to want to update. Using @Sauraus's it just ends up in a restart loop, never actually finishing the upgrade. We need to always log in and manually start the service at least once with the agent.sh script in order for the upgrade to complete.

Does anyone have a functional unit file for this?

Edit:
The following seems to work for me:

[Unit]
Description=TeamCity Build Agent
After=network.target

[Service]
User=archiv
Type=forking
RemainAfterExit=yes
SuccessExitStatus=0 143
Restart=on-failure
PIDFile=/opt/BuildAgent_TC/buildAgent/logs/buildAgent.pid
ExecStart=/opt/BuildAgent_TC/buildAgent/bin/agent.sh start
ExecStop=/opt/BuildAgent_TC/buildAgent/bin/agent.sh stop

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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