3 files changed, 21 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/control b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/control
index 9cf494ab87..29ea81049c 100644
--- a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/control
+++ b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/control
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ Uploaders: Alvaro Videla <alvaro@rabbitmq.com>,
  Jean-Sébastien Pédron <jean-sebastien@rabbitmq.com>,
  Giuseppe Privitera <giuseppe@rabbitmq.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9),
+ dh-systemd (>= 1.5),
  erlang-dev,
  python-simplejson,
  xmlto,
  xsltproc,
- erlang-nox (>= 1:16.b.3),
+ erlang-nox (>= 1:16.b.3) | esl-erlang,
  zip,
  rsync
 Standards-Version: 3.9.4
diff --git a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rabbitmq-server.service b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rabbitmq-server.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1aa6549b64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rabbitmq-server.service
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# systemd unit example
+[Unit]
+Description=RabbitMQ broker
+After=network.target epmd@0.0.0.0.socket
+Wants=network.target epmd@0.0.0.0.socket
+
+[Service]
+Type=notify
+User=rabbitmq
+Group=rabbitmq
+NotifyAccess=all
+TimeoutStartSec=3600
+WorkingDirectory=/var/lib/rabbitmq
+ExecStart=/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmq-server
+ExecStop=/usr/lib/rabbitmq/bin/rabbitmqctl stop
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rules b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rules
index 053df18115..770eeb0ea5 100755
--- a/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rules
+++ b/packaging/debs/Debian/debian/rules
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ DEB_DESTDIR = debian/rabbitmq-server
 VERSION = $(shell dpkg-parsechangelog | awk '/^Version:/ {version=$$0; sub(/Version: /, "", version); sub(/-.*/, "", version); print version;}')
 
 %:
-	dh $@ --parallel
+	dh $@ --parallel --with systemd
 
 override_dh_auto_clean:
 	$(MAKE) clean distclean-manpages