Issues running airflow scheduler as a daemon process

Question

I have an EC2 instance that is running airflow 1.8.0 using LocalExecutor. Per the docs I would have expected that one of the following two commands would have raise

Answer 1

About task start via systemd:

I had a problem with the PATH variable when run this way is initially empty. That is, when you write to the file /etc/sysconfig/airflow:

PATH=/home/ubuntu/bin:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin:$PATH

you literally write:

PATH=/home/ubuntu/bin:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin

Thus, the variable PATH doesn't contain /bin which is a bash utility that LocalExecutor uses to run tasks.

So I do not understand why in this file you have not specified AIRFLOW_HOME. That is, the directory in which the Airflow is looking for its configuration file.