# Genieacs failed to start the service. Procedure **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [December 10, 2022, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/genieacs-failed-to-start-the-service-procedure/3295 "2022-12-10T07:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jorken99](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.genieacs.com/jorken99/32/1084_2.png) [@jorken99](https://forum.genieacs.com/u/jorken99)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/genieacs-failed-to-start-the-service-procedure/3295/1 "2022-12-10T07:12:05Z")
Hello: When I used centos7 to set up genieacs, I encountered a problem, that is, Genieacs-CWMP and other services failed to start, but I specified the correct directory, is there a solution? Startup error message： [root@localhost ~]# systemctl status genieacs-cwmp ● genieacs-cwmp.service - GenieACS CWMP Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/genieacs-cwmp.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since 六 2022-12-10 15:08:45 CST; 4s ago Process: 8193 ExecStart=/root/node-v16.5.0-linux-x64/bin/genieacs-cwmp (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) Main PID: 8193 (code=exited, status=203/EXEC) genieacs startup file： [root@localhost ~]# which genieacs-cwmp /root/node-v16.5.0-linux-x64/bin/genieacs-cwmp ---
**Author:** ![rudymartin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rudymartin](https://forum.genieacs.com/u/rudymartin)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/genieacs-failed-to-start-the-service-procedure/3295/2 "2022-12-10T16:11:54Z")
By looking at the error message it is clear to me you are doing something horribly wrong. First off: path. If it’s supposed to run as the user genieacs then it won’t have access to /root. Second is the error code 203. Might be related.