Cfrgtkky

I am trying to get Calibre server to start automatic during startup.
I have used this tutorial.
Then I've used this script:

[Unit]

Description=Calibre Service

After=network.target



[Service]

User=calibre

Group=calibre

ExecStart=/usr/bin/calibre-server 

        --daemonize 

        --max-cover=600x800 

        --max-opds-items=30 

        --max-opds-ungrouped-items=100 

        --username=calibre 

        --port=9000 

        --pidfile=/var/run/calibre-server.pid 

        --with-library=/jan/home/calibre-library/



[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target 

to create an auto startup in systemd.
If I manualy startup with: systemctl start calibre.service
It seems to execute.
If I give the command: systemctl status calibre.service, I get the following result:

● calibre.service - Calibre Service

   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/calibre.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)

   Active: inactive (dead) since Thu 2017-05-25 21:55:51 CEST; 45s ago

  Process: 1887 ExecStart=/usr/bin/calibre-server --daemonize --max-cover=600x800 --max-opds-items=30 --max-opds-ungrouped-items=100 --username=calibre --port=

 Main PID: 1887 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)



May 25 21:55:50 FileServer systemd[1]: Started Calibre Service.

May 25 21:55:50 FileServer calibre-server[1887]: No write acces to 

/home/calibre/.config/calibre using a temporary dir instead

But when I look in my browser there is no calibre home page on http://192.168.0.100:9000, this is my home server.
Does anyone have a clue?

You are using --pidfile=/var/run/calibre-server.pid which tell calibre to write the pid file to /var/run. Most likely the user running the process User=calibre does not have access to write there. I'd suggest you remove --pidfile since you're not using it.

If you do want to use it, change the path to a writeable directory by the calibre user and add PIDFile=/dir/with/pidfile/calibre-server.pid before your ExecStart line, and as mentioned above also add Type=forking

I am running a Calibre server successfully on 18.04, so hopefully these suggestions apply to your distribution as well.

I would change the Type to "oneshot" and remove the "--daemonize" tag because it doesn't need to be there since you're running it from systemd anyway. If you are running the current version of calibre then you need to remove the "--with-library" tag and just leave the last line as "/path/to/calibre/library".

Additionally, you specify a username but no password. Not sure if that causes problems, but it might be better to create a user database and then pass the option "--enable-auth" to your server command to activate your users (see the calibre user manual) along with "--userdb /path/to/users.sqlite". If you need more information on how to do this I can expand.

Lastly, since it hasn't been mentioned yet, please make sure the port you are using is allowed through your firewall and forwarded by your router properly.