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Any systemd experts here? Have a service that's not working properly and it seems its related to environment variables not passing through to the executable. Exact commands working fine outside systemd.

1000 sats to the person with the solution.

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G Force G 3mo ago

Are the variables exported?

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Geektoshi 3mo ago

they are in an .env file in the projects root which works fine when i run the proxy directly from the terminal. Something about the systemd service not picking them up though. even tried both ENVIRONMENT and EnvironmentFile in the service and same issue.

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G Force G 3mo ago

You may want to write a simple bash script that dot sources the .env file followed by the command.

Something like:

. .env

Have the service call this script instead of your command.

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G Force G 3mo ago

Otherwise you have two options. Add an [Environment] section to your service.

Or add a .conf file containing the [Environment] section. Somewhere like this:

/etc/systemd/system/.d/override.conf

But if your goal is to use a single .env for configuring the service then you may want to go with dot sourcing the .env file.

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Geektoshi 3mo ago

not the solution but was able to get this working through pm2. small zap for taking the time.

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G Force G 3mo ago

Cool! I will have to look into pm2