Creating a non-SNAP noVNC service

[Richard Mixon]

We are running in an embedded environment with limited disk and memory so we've disabled SNAP on our Ubuntu 22.04 based system.

I've created a systemd service which actually works fine - other than having to check status by looking for "activating" instead of "active".

Pretty sure that's because does not run as a daemon.

How could we better configure this:

• [Unit]
  Description=Init file for noVNC 1.4.0 proxy
  Documentation=
  After=network.target auditd.service
  
  [Service]
  ConditionPathExists=/home/n2kowner/n2k/display.xml
  ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/grep -s "mode=\"[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]\"" /home/n2kowner/n2k/display.xml
  ExecStart=/home/n2kowner/noVNC-1.4.0/utils/novnc_proxy --vnc localhost:5901 --syslog /dev/log --listen 443 --cert /home/n2kowner/.ssh/self.pem
  ExecStop=pkill -f "/home/n2kowner/noVNC-1.4.0/utils/novnc_proxy"
  Restart=on-failure
  ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
  KillMode=process
  Restart=on-failure
  RestartPreventExitStatus=255
  Type=notify
  RuntimeDirectory=/home/n2kowner/noVNC-1.4.0/utils
  RuntimeDirectoryMode=0755
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target
  
  

Thank you much - Richard

[Richard Mixon]

In case anyone else runs in to this issue, the answer to this post also resolved the "Activating" issue:

• https://groups.google.com/g/novnc/c/En1NjIehGb0/m/T17QItf0AQAJ

Thank you again - Richard

[Pierre Ossman]

On 08/04/2024 22:39, Richard Mixon wrote:
> In case anyone else runs in to this issue, the answer to this post also
> resolved the "Activating" issue:
>

> - https://groups.google.com/g/novnc/c/En1NjIehGb0/m/T17QItf0AQAJ

>
> Thank you again - Richard
>

Thanks for giving everyone an update!

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