Running code-server as systemd service on Ubuntu

[mrducnguyen]

Hi,

I'm trying to run code-server as a systemd service on Ubuntu 20.04

Here's my service unit

[Unit]
Description=VSCode on the web
After=nginx.service

[Service]
User=user
Group=user

WorkingDirectory=/home/user/coder
Environment="PATH=/home/user/coder"
ExecStart=/usr/bin/code-server --bind-addr 127.0.0.1:8888

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

But keep running into this error when I tried to start the service with: systemctl start code-server

systemctl status code-server
● code-server.service - VSCode on the web
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/code-server.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2021-06-22 12:12:17 AEST; 7s ago
    Process: 525044 ExecStart=/usr/bin/code-server --bind-addr 127.0.0.1:8888 (code=exited, status=127)
   Main PID: 525044 (code=exited, status=127)

systemd[1]: Started VSCode on the web.
code-server[525044]: /usr/bin/env: ‘sh’: No such file or directory
systemd[1]: code-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
systemd[1]: code-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

If I'm on a console window, logged in as user user, I can run this command /usr/bin/code-server --bind-addr 127.0.0.1:8888 without any issue and code-server is working properly.

here's the user's line in /etc/passwd

user:x:1000:1000:User Name,,,:/home/user:/bin/bash

I'm confused. Not sure where to look at

[jsjoeio]

code-server[525044]: /usr/bin/env: ‘sh’: No such file or directory

Hmmm 🤔 Maybe @code-asher or @oxy knows

[code-asher]

This is just a guess but it might not be able to find `sh` since you have overridden `PATH` (which is what is used to find binaries). You might be able to just remove the `Environment` line entirely. Are there binaries in `/home/user/coder` you need to be available? If you do need `/home/user/coder` in the path you could try adding it to your `~/.bashrc` or `~/.profile` instead. Something like: ``` PATH="/home/user/coder:$PATH" ``` If you really need it in the systemd file then you could try running `printenv PATH` and then copy that into your systemd file (since you can't use environment variables in `Environment` so the line above won't work). It might look something like this: ``` Environment="PATH=/home/user/coder:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin" ```

[mrducnguyen]

Thanks for your suggestions, I'll try and feedback later. The service unit content was copied from another issue thread in this repo. sh is by default in the system wide PATH environment (/etc/environment), so looks like the ENVIRONMENT=... is not needed at all. :) I'm still quite new with setting up services in Linux.

/home/user/coder is just an empty directory where code-server use as working dir

[mrducnguyen]

confirm that after removing the Environment=... line from my code-server.service , code-server was able to startup