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Automatically start long-running script on boot and keep it running with systemd
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README.md

  1. Create EXAMPLE.service in /etc/systemd/system/

  2. Modify service script as necessary

  • ExecStart is the command to run on startup
  • ExecStop is the command to run on shutdown
  • Restart=always tells systemd to try to restart the script after 30 seconds if it exits for any reason
  1. Tell systemd to start this service automatically when the machine starts:

sudo systemctl enable EXAMPLE.service

  1. Start the service right now (optional):

sudo systemctl start EXAMPLE.service

  1. Check the status (optional):

sudo systemctl status EXAMPLE.service

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EXAMPLE.service
[Unit]
Description=Description of this service
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nohup /path/to/server.sh
Restart=always
RestartSec=30
StandardOutput=/path/to/log
StandardError=/path/to/log
SyslogIdentifier=EXAMPLE
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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