systemd on Ubuntu 16.04 has wrong WorkingDirectory about service HOT 7 OPEN

Had the same problem and i didn't had RootDirectory. Without RootDirectory i had the same problem with the working dir, even if i've removed the "

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Thanks for the report. I need to look into systemd unit files more, again.

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Hi,
Can you please let me know the progress on this bug, as I am facing the same issue. I am setting some value in working directory alone but it is not reflecting. Can you please share the alternative way to set the PWD value in systemd service file.

Thanks

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I have not yet looked into this. Thanks for the ping. I'll research this later this week hopefully.

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Can you please provide some alternative approach for this. As my service is not running properly due to this. I need to change the current working directory to some other dir in service file. which will enable my server to pick the correct path using PWD.

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Any update on this?

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I don't know for RootDirectory but WorkingDirectory doesn't support double quotes (at least with the version of systemd that's present on Ubuntu 16.04). The solution is to escape the path with systemd-escape --path and prepend a leading '/' to the result.

WorkingDirectory="/var/path with spaces in it/bin" [ DOES NOT work ]

WorkingDirectory=/var-path\x20with\x20spaces\x20in\x20it-bin [ DOES work ]

More info here:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-escape.html
https://serverfault.com/a/792831/173055
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/242028

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