Path is not absolute error

[ghost]

I'm trying to connect to FreeDNS.afraid.org but the service is erroring out and I don't know what to do. Running journalctl gets me this:

noah@beelink-server:~$ journalctl -u dyndns
Jun 22 22:28:55 beelink-server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/dyndns.service:11: WorkingDirectory= path is not absolute: #WORKDIR#
Jun 22 22:28:55 beelink-server systemd[1]: dyndns.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
Jun 22 22:34:59 beelink-server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/dyndns.service:12: Neither a valid executable name nor an absolute path: home/noah/dyndns/dyndns
Jun 22 22:34:59 beelink-server systemd[1]: dyndns.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
Jun 22 22:36:03 beelink-server systemd[1]: Started dyndns.service - Update External IP v4/v6 addresses to a Dynamic DNS server.
Jun 22 22:36:03 beelink-server (dyndns)[4652]: dyndns.service: Failed to determine user credentials: No such process
Jun 22 22:36:03 beelink-server systemd[1]: dyndns.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=217/USER
Jun 22 22:36:03 beelink-server systemd[1]: dyndns.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 22 22:38:03 beelink-server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/dyndns.service:11: WorkingDirectory= path is not absolute: #/home/noah/dyndns#
Jun 22 22:38:03 beelink-server systemd[1]: dyndns.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
Jun 22 22:43:45 beelink-server systemd[1]: /etc/systemd/system/dyndns.service:11: WorkingDirectory= path is not absolute: ~/dyndns
Jun 22 22:43:45 beelink-server systemd[1]: dyndns.service: Unit configuration has fatal error, unit will not be started.
noah@beelink-server:~$

This is the dyndns.service:

[Unit]
Description=Update External IP v4/v6 addresses to a Dynamic DNS server
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target

[Service]
# Set the following USER to your user name.
User=noah
# Set the following WORKDIR to the source program directory (where you
# git cloned)
WorkingDirectory=~/dyndns
ExecStart=~/dyndns/%p

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

I'm kinda new to this stuff so please help me, I'm trying to run a home web server and I got everything figured out except for the DDNS part, thanks!

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You're obviously struggling on how to set those WorkingDirectory and ExecStart variables as can be seen in the error log which shows what you have already tried. So why didn't you fix the last error it reported? I.e. the service file does not like the tilde ~ character (that is an alias provided by many shells but not relevant here). So set WorkingDirectory=/home/noah/dyndns and ExecStart=/home/noah/dyndns/%p and it should work.

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I changed this to a discussion because you are asking for help, not reporting a bug.

[ghost]

Thanks, it works now. But in the dyndns.toml file it needs a "token" for FreeDNS. Where can I get the token?

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That question has nothing to do with this app or repo. That is asking about the FreeDNS service which I guess you can read about here.