SystemD unit is written to non-standard location

[fatmcgav]

I have just installed Kibana 6.1 on a CentOS 7.3 box via Yum, and observed that the systemd unit has been installed to a non-standard location of /etc/systemd/system/.

Standard packaging practise is for systemd unit files to be installed to /lib/systemd/system/.

Also of relevance is #6579, as currently logs are spamming /var/log/messages, when they should really go into '/var/log/kibana'.

N.B: It appears that the install location was changed as part of #7276

Kibana version: 6.1.1
Elasticsearch version: 6.1.1
Server OS version: CentOS 7.3.1611
Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): yum
Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Kibana RPM
2. Check systemd unit location:

$ systemctl status kibana |grep loaded
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kibana.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)

[prupert]

+1

[swanandvg]

I am facing this issue after upgrading kibana from 6.7 to 7.0. Suggest me any way to start Kibana as it is in the production environment.

[GoneWacko]

This is actually pretty annoying because this prevents masking the service:

root@host:/# systemctl mask kibana
Failed to execute operation: Invalid argument

To mask the service, systemd attempts to symlink /etc/systemd/system/kibana.service to /dev/null. But my guess is, since /etc/systemd/system/kibana.service is not a symlink but a regular file, it fails.

Compare this to Elasticsearch, which correctly installs to /usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service:

root@host:/# systemctl status elasticsearch
● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co

root@host:/# systemctl mask elasticsearch
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service to /dev/null.

root@host:/# systemctl status elasticsearch
● elasticsearch.service
   Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)
   Active: inactive (dead)