Trying to setup a single node Consul on Ubuntu 18.04, using version: Consul v1.8.4
. I am using my own user to start,
My consul.service file looks like this
[Service]
ExecStart=/opt/consul/bin/consul agent –server –ui –data-dir=/temp/consul –bootstrap-expect=1 –node=vault –bind=192.168.37.128 –config-dir=/etc/consul.d
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl start consul
The service fails to start - complaining about Unexpected extra arguments
journalctl -xe -u consul
Unexpected extra arguments: [–server –ui –data-dir=/temp/consul –bootstrap-expect=1 –node=vault –bind=192.168.37.128 –conf
Oct 02 23:50:25 ubuntu2 systemd[1]: consul.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Oct 02 23:50:25 ubuntu2 systemd[1]: consul.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Update Issue 2
failed to parse /etc/consul.d/ui.json: invalid character 'â' looking for beginning of object key string
ui.json
- the issue seems “ ”
- they need to be " "
- as below now:
{
"addresses": {
"http": "0.0.0.0"
}
}
So these unicode chars need to be taken care of - cut-n-paste issues across editors - best use text editors or directly in console.
If anyone has best practice ideas.
The issue is that the options specified in your systemd unit are prefixed with a en dash (
–
: Unicode 0x2013) instead of a hyphen (-
: Unicode 0x2d). See Wikipedia: Hyphens and Dashes for more info.The proper syntax to specify the options is: