I have a script that I would like to run as service on my Linux machine, let’s call it my_script.sh. It is executable and can be run over ./path/to/my_scrit.sh.

I also have script that kills my_script.sh, let’s call it kill_my_scprit.sh. The contents of kill_my_script.sh are:

#!/bin/bash

sudo kill -SIGINT $(pgrep my_script)

In essence, this should mimic Ctrl+C for my_script.sh.

This works perfectly fine if I run the scripts from a terminal, i.e. in ttyX I run ./path/to/my_scrit.sh to start it and in ttyY ./path/to/kill_my_scrit.sh to initiate the shut down sequence of my_script.sh.

As mentioned before, the goal is to run this as deamon, so I created /etc/systemd/system/my_script.service

[Unit]
....

[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/path/to/dir/
ExecStart=/path/to/my_script.sh
ExecStop=/path/to/kill_my_script.sh
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
...

Using sudo systemctl start my_script.service starts the script as expected, but using sudo systemctl stop my_script.service starts the shutdown sequence for my_script.sh, but doesn’t let it finish… Am I missing something? The shutdown sequence takes roughly 10sec…