Server service not working after update

[Galbi3000]

Hi,

Today I updated my Linux TS3 server from version 3.0.11.x to 3.0.13.6 but it now fails to start up as a service.

The way my server is set up:

The server is stored in /opt/teamspeak3-server/
The files are all owned by a user called teamspeak3-user (chown -R teamspeak3-user:teamspeak3-user *)
The file /etc/init.d/ts3 contains the following:

#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          ts3
# Required-Start:    $network mysql
# Required-Stop:     $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: TeamSpeak3 Server Daemon
# Description:       Starts/Stops/Restarts the TeamSpeak3 Server Daemon
### END INIT INFO

set -e

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DESC="TeamSpeak3 Server"
NAME=teamspeak3-server
USER=teamspeak3-user
DIR=/opt/teamspeak3-server
OPTIONS=inifile=ts3server.ini
DAEMON=$DIR/ts3server_startscript.sh
#PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME

# Gracefully exit if the package has been removed.
test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

sleep 2
sudo -u $USER $DAEMON $1 $OPTIONS

There were no problems with the service running before I did the update.
The steps I took to update were:
Stop the service.
Backup the /opt/teamspeak3-server/ directory.
Extract the new version in to the /opt/teamspeak3-server/ directory.
Ran chown to change ownership of overwritten files to teamspeak3-user.
Rebooted the system.

No TeamSpeak3 server to connect to!

So I checked the status of the service with "service ts3 status" and got the following:

● ts3.service - LSB: TeamSpeak3 Server Daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/ts3; bad; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Fri 2017-02-03 14:27:01 GMT; 13s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 2807 ExecStop=/etc/init.d/ts3 stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 3279 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/ts3 start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Feb 03 14:26:59 galbi3000-linux systemd[1]: Starting LSB: TeamSpeak3 Server Daemon...
Feb 03 14:27:01 galbi3000-linux sudo[3283]:     root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=teamspeak3-user ; COMMAND=/opt/teamspeak3-server/ts3server_startscript.sh start inifile=ts3server.ini
Feb 03 14:27:01 galbi3000-linux sudo[3283]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user teamspeak3-user by (uid=0)
Feb 03 14:27:01 galbi3000-linux ts3[3279]: sudo: unable to execute /opt/teamspeak3-server/ts3server_startscript.sh: Permission denied
Feb 03 14:27:01 galbi3000-linux sudo[3283]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user teamspeak3-user
Feb 03 14:27:01 galbi3000-linux systemd[1]: Started LSB: TeamSpeak3 Server Daemon.

So I tried running the server directly using ts3server_minimal_runscript.sh and it reported the database was in use and kept timing out waiting for it to free up so I stopped that and then stopped the ts3 service and tried running the server again with ts3server_minimal_runscript.sh. The server ran fine using the script!

So, why is it not working as a service any more? How can I fix it?

[Galbi3000]

Ok, after some experimentation I have fixed the problem (I am fairly new to advanced Linus stuff)!

Here is how I fixed it:

I surmised that the services default to running as root user and could see that the ts3 server was being run as user teamspeak3-user (I followed a YouTube video on how to set up the server and that's how they set it up, so don't blame me :P ) and as I was successfully starting it manually as root user all I had to so was run the service as root!

So I changed the ownership of all the files/directories in the /opt/teamspeak3-server/ directory with chown to root:root.
I edited the ts3 service script file so that the last line reads "$USER $DAEMON $1 $OPTIONS" instead of "sudo -u $USER $DAEMON $1 $OPTIONS".

After those 2 changes the TS3 server runs as a service again

[Data179]

Running the server as root is NOT the way you should have done this......
Running it as a normal user would be far better in terms of security.
I have a script that works without root-permissio, if you want it i can send it to you.