HI Sage, Cephers (I'm not on ceph-devel at the moment, will switch in a moment.) Thanks. I am testing on RHEL7/CentOS 7. As quick workaround setting the .service file to [Service] Type=forking ExecStart= ceph-osd -i #without --foreground) ExecPreStart = .... works for the moment . Is there a reason the daemons shouldn't run in forking mode under systemd? Both ceph-mon@.service and ceph-radosgw@.service (<== self-created based on the ceph-mon@.service unit file) work with Type=forking ExecStart=path_to_daemon_no_foreground or #Type=simple ExecStart=path_to_daemon --foreground BTW do you want a pull requrest for ceph-radosgw@.service? - Anthony _______________________________________________ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.ceph.com/listinfo.cgi/ceph-users-ceph.com