Setting up Redis to run as a daemon under systemd

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This can be used to daemonize anything that would normally run in the foreground; I picked Redis. Put this in /etc/systemd/system/redis.service:

[Unit]
Description=Redis
After=syslog.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf
RestartSec=5s
Restart=on-success

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Make sure that redis.conf has demonize no (the default; systemd will take care of 'daemonizing'). The Restart=on-success in the service file means that the daemon will be auto-restarted only when it exited cleanly (so that 'bad' problems are not masked; see doc). Then run:

sudo systemctl enable /etc/systemd/system/redis.service
sudo systemctl start redis.service

Links:

• intro (coreos)
• more (digitalocean)
• manpage

@mkocikowski,

As @jee1mr said, there is a typo. The setting in redis.conf is:

By default Redis does not run as a daemon. Use 'yes' if you need it. # Note that Redis will write a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid when daemonized. daemonize no

and not:

demonize no

Find here (at Step 3) a somehow detailled way to achieve this task.