Issue - Run PingFed as a service

[ChefMadeEasy]

     Greetings Scott,

I've downloaded your cookbook as-is and ran it on rhel 7, all looks good except the last step that runs PingFederate as a service. Any recommendations on how to fix this issue?
Thanks much!

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Error executing action enable on resource 'service[pingfederate]'

       Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
       ------------------------------------
       Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
       ---- Begin output of /bin/systemctl --system enable pingfederate ----
       STDOUT: 
       STDERR: Failed to execute operation: Access denied
       ---- End output of /bin/systemctl --system enable pingfederate ----
       Ran /bin/systemctl --system enable pingfederate returned 1
       
       Resource Declaration:
       ---------------------
       # In /tmp/kitchen/cache/cookbooks/pingfederate/recipes/pingfederate.rb
       
       101: service 'pingfederate' do
       102:   action [:enable]
       103: end

[scottymarshall]

My bad. I did not test on RHEL 7, only 6.

You just need to setup the service using the systemd resource instead of the service resource. If you want to add it to the cookbook, go for it. Take a look at the "systemd" cookbook: https://github.com/nathwill/chef-systemd

I have used it before for a private cookbook for installing bamboo, and its pretty simple. Here's an example:

systemd_service 'bamboo' do
  description 'Atlassian Bamboo'
  after %w( network.target syslog.target )
  install do
    wanted_by 'multi-user.target'
  end
  service do
    exec_start "#{node['jmh_bamboo']['install']['current']}/bin/start-bamboo.sh"
    exec_stop "#{node['jmh_bamboo']['install']['current']}/bin/stop-bamboo.sh"
    user node['jmh_bamboo']['run_as']
    group node['jmh_bamboo']['run_as']
    type 'forking'
  end
  # only_if { ::File.open('/proc/1/comm').gets.chomp == 'systemd' } # systemd
   only_if { node['platform_version'].start_with?('7.') } # systemd
end