so, i found myself in the same spot, googled and found my question from 4 years ago, here is the fix. for my future self. ExecStart=/usr/bin/deluge-web -l /var/log/deluge/web.log -L debug should have a '-d' inserted to run as a daemon ExecStart=/usr/bin/deluge-web -d -l /var/log/deluge/web.log -L de...

some more digging... journalctl produces this: Jan 21 19:04:02 mybox.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting Deluge Bittorrent Client Web Interface... Jan 21 19:04:02 mybox.localdomain systemd[1]: Started Deluge Bittorrent Client Web Interface. Jan 21 19:04:03 mybox.localdomain systemd[1]: deluge-web.servi...

Fresh install of CentOS, Fresh install of Deluge. I followed the systemd scripts page and made a new user, had to edit the adduser command to make it relevant to CentOS adduser --system --comment "Deluge Service" --home-dir /var/lib/deluge deluge As user deluge I started deluged and deluge...