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Ubuntu systemd service file for Redis. The server was updated to a Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet) distribution. Redis was installed from the PPA from Roman Wookey (https://launchpad.net/~rwky/+archive/ubuntu/redis). After the switch to systemd instead of Upstart, Redis was not started by default. So I've hacked the following systemd config file. It…
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redis-server.service
[Unit]
Description=Redis Datastore Server
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/var/run/redis/redis.pid
ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir -p /var/run/redis
ExecStartPre=/bin/chown redis:redis /var/run/redis
ExecStart=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --chuid redis:redis --pidfile /var/run/redis/redis.pid --umask 007 --exec /usr/bin/redis-server -- /etc/redis/redis.conf
ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR2 $MAINPID
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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With systemd, the package (.deb or .rpm) should install the *.service file in /lib/systemd/system/ (Ubuntu) or in the /usr/lib/systemd/system/ (RHEL) directory. So the script above should go into /lib/systemd/system/. - akbarahmed

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