Redis Daemon not creating a PID file

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For those experiencing on Debian buster:

Editing
nano /etc/systemd/system/redis.service

and adding this line below redis [Service]

ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c "echo $MAINPID > /var/run/redis/redis.pid"

It suppose to look like this:

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/redis-server /etc/redis/redis.conf
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s TERM $MAINPID
ExecStartPost=/bin/sh -c "echo $MAINPID > /var/run/redis/redis.pid"
PIDFile=/run/redis/redis-server.pid

then:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl restart redis.service

Check redis.service status:

sudo systemctl status redis.service
The pid file now should appear.

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