Celeryd not running at startup

Question

I ran sudo update-rc.d celeryd defaults

All good.

I ran:

/etc/init.d/celeryd start

All good.

I restart machine.

All bad.

sudo /etc/init.d/celeryd status

celeryd not running (no pidfile)

I'm a noob on linux and I don't even have the first idea of where to look to find some error messages. I checked /var/log but I don't see anything relevant. /var/log/celery is empty. But if I manually run celeryd start, then /var/log/celery will have some logs.

Answer 1

Here's the process.

1. Put the celeryd file inside /etc/init.d/

2. Make it executable

   sudo chmod +x celeryd
   

3. Make it run on startup

   sudo update-rc.d celeryd defaults
   sudo update-rc.d celeryd enable <------- Are you currently missing this step?
   

4. Make it owned by root and have the correct permissions

   sudo chown root:root celeryd
   sudo chmod 777 celeryd
   

Answer 2

You need to tell the system to auto start it. Read these excellent answers on the different ways you can achieve this.