Example installation on a systemd based box, eg Debian/Ubuntu:
# ./configure --with-systemd-dir=/etc/systemd/system --prefix=/opt/guacamole-server # make # make install After installation: # systemctrl edit guacd Then you can update the stock unit file. Here I have fixed the path to the executable, given the --prefix above and I've set the user that the daemon will run as (you need to create the user): ### Anything between here and the comment below will become the new contents of the file [Service] ExecStart= ExecStart=/opt/guacamole-server/sbin/guacd -f User=guacd_user ### Lines below this comment will be discarded Then enable and start it: # systemctl enable guacd # systemctl start guacd Cheers Jon On Thu, 2024-04-11 at 16:09 -0500, Johnnie W Adams wrote: Thanks! I'm surprised that systemd isn't the default. On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 4:01 PM Nick Couchman <vn...@apache.org<mailto:vn...@apache.org>> wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 4:53 PM Johnnie W Adams <jxad...@ualr.edu<mailto:jxad...@ualr.edu>> wrote: Hi, folks, I'm comparing my installation to the one I inherited, and I noticed that the one I inherited has guacd installed as a systemd unit file, but the one I built does not. Did I do something wrong in the configuration? Both installations are 1.5.4 to the best of my knowledge. (I'm not entirely certain how to determine it on the one I inherited.) There's an option in the configure script for enabling systemd: --with-systemd-dir=<path> install systemd units to the given directory You'll need to run that and provide a path to the directory you'd like to install the systemd unit files in (/etc/systemd/system is common). Also, depending on your system configuration, you may need to change the user that guacd runs under. The default one in the systemd file included with the distribution is "daemon", however, on many systems this user does not have a writable home directory (RHEL and variants use /sbin as the home directory), and RDP connections will likely fail due to the inability of the user to write out the FreeRDP known_hosts file. So, you may also want to create a user account and change the systemd file such that guacd runs under its own user account. -Nick -- John Adams Senior Linux/Middleware Administrator | Information Technology Services +1-501-916-3010 | jxad...@ualr.edu<mailto:jxad...@ualr.edu> | http://ualr.edu/itservices UA Little Rock Reminder: IT Services will never ask for your password over the phone or in an email. Always be suspicious of requests for personal information that come via email, even from known contacts. For more information or to report suspicious email, visit IT Security<http://ualr.edu/itservices/security/>.
