Let systemd start ejabberd in foreground

Daemons started by systemd shouldn't fork into the background if
possible, because if multiple forked processes exist, systemd has
a hard time determining the main process ID.

In a memory constrained environment, the OOM killer may cause
ejabberd to exit without any trace. Because epmd keeps running,
systemd wouldn't notice the error condition, and as a result it
won't restart the server.

With ejabberd running in foreground, systemd is able to obtain the
correct exit code (137 in this case, instead of 0) and schedules a
restart. The administrator can then see what happend by looking at
systemctl status ejabberd.
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Andreas Oberritter 2020-11-19 20:43:51 +01:00
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@ -3,13 +3,12 @@ Description=XMPP Server
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=forking
User=ejabberd
Group=ejabberd
LimitNOFILE=65536
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c '@ctlscriptpath@/ejabberdctl start && @ctlscriptpath@/ejabberdctl started'
ExecStart=@ctlscriptpath@/ejabberdctl foreground
ExecStop=/bin/sh -c '@ctlscriptpath@/ejabberdctl stop && @ctlscriptpath@/ejabberdctl stopped'
ExecReload=@ctlscriptpath@/ejabberdctl reload_config
PrivateDevices=true