Systemd Zookeeper service failed - linux

Question

I've created the following systemd service script for running Zookeeper using Ansible:
[Unit]
Description=ZooKeeper
[Service]
User=root
Type=forking
User=zookeeper
Group=zookeeper
ExecStart=/tmp/zookeeper-3.4.9/bin/zkServer.sh start
ExecStop=/tmp/zookeeper-3.4.9/bin/zkServer.sh stop
TimeoutSec=300
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
But, while trying to run the script using sudo service zookeeper start I get the following error:
Nov 15 22:00:35 sharedservicesprovider systemd[1]: Starting ZooKeeper...
-- Subject: Unit zookeeper.service has begun start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- Unit zookeeper.service has begun starting up.
Nov 15 22:00:35 sharedservicesprovider systemd[15287]: zookeeper.service: Failed at step USER spawning /tmp/zookeeper-3.4.9/bin/zkServer.sh: No such process
-- Subject: Process /tmp/zookeeper-3.4.9/bin/zkServer.sh could not be executed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
--
-- The process /tmp/zookeeper-3.4.9/bin/zkServer.sh could not be executed and failed.
--
-- The error number returned by this process is 3.
Nov 15 22:00:35 sharedservicesprovider systemd[1]: zookeeper.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=217
Nov 15 22:00:35 sharedservicesprovider systemd[1]: Failed to start ZooKeeper.
-- Subject: Unit zookeeper.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
Any hint onto why I am unable to start Zookeeper properly since I'm quite new to system services?

Answer 1

Maybe so late... but use as ExecStart:
/tmp/zookeeper-3.4.9/bin/zkServer.sh start-foreground

Answer 2

[Unit]
Description=Zookeeper
After=syslog.target
[Service]
Environment=ZOO_LOG_DIR=/zookeeper/logs
SyslogIdentifier=zookeeper
TimoutStartSec=10min
Type=forking
User=zookeeper
Group=zookeeper
ExecStart=/zookeeper/bin/zkServer.sh start
ExecStop=/zookeeper/bin/zkServer.sh stop
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
ZOO_LOG_DIR is for permission require

Answer 3

this sounds like basics to check to me
first, make sure the file exists
ls -ltrah /tmp/zookeeper-3.4.9/bin/zkServer.sh
if it doesn't find where you extracted the zookeeper startup script. On my instance, it's /opt/kafka/bin/zookeeper-server-start.sh
Then verify that the user you have specified (you've specified two users, root and zookeeper. I'm assuming the last value is what's valid/desired) can access the script and has executable rights to it.
This would be done with chown and chmod commands, respectively.