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Robot: Cosmetic changes
== Philosophy ==
== Why do it this way? ==
* ease of use
* Your service will be watchdogged by systemd
* pass off project maitinance
* Your service will recover from network and power outages.
* It allows other members to help maintain your service, or disable it cleanly if it need attention.
* It's great for IRC bots
== working on sally ==
== Working on Sally ==
All members have shell and admin access on sally.
All members have shell and admin access on sally.
You also have sudo (root user) access.
sudo uname -a
sudo uname -a
== Create service environment ==
== Create Your Service Environment ==
=== Create a system account for your service ===
=== Create a System Account for your Service ===
sudo useradd strup -b /srv/ -m -r
sudo useradd strup -b /srv/ -m -r
== Working With SystemD ==
The creates a user named <code>strup</code>. The -b indicates the base home directory is /srv/, and therefore the system accounts home directory is /srv/strup/
== Working with SystemD ==
Create a unit file:
Create a unit file:
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</pre>
=== start service, check for log output, etc ===
=== Start Your Service and Check for Log Output ===
sudo systemctl start strup.service
sudo systemctl start strup.service
sudo systemctl status strup.service
sudo systemctl status strup.service
To follow log output:
To follow log output:
Initially, in my example, I see <quote>ircbot: /home/PS1/hef/projects/strup/irc/main.cpp:45: int main(int, char**): Assertion `file.is_open()' failed.</quote> because I havn't created a file yet.
Initially, in my example, I see <code>ircbot: /home/PS1/hef/projects/strup/irc/main.cpp:45: int main(int, char**): Assertion `file.is_open()' failed.</code> because I havn't created a file yet.
=== working with service files ===
=== Working with Service Files ===
If you tried to see your service user's home directory earlier, you may have noticed it didn't work. switch to your service accounts users.
If you tried to see your service user's home directory earlier, you may have noticed it didn't work. switch to your service accounts users.
sudo su strup
sudo su strup
Your are now running as the user ''strup'', but you are now in the user's home directory. Running <code>cd</code> without parameters will switch to the current user's home directory.
cd
cd
My example requires a file from project gutenberg.
My example requires a file from project gutenberg.
After verifying that the service is starting and running correctly:
After verifying that the service is starting and running correctly:
sudo systemctl status strup
sudo systemctl status strup.service
Enable the service
Enable the service
sudo systemctl enable strup
sudo systemctl enable strup.service
The service is now configured to start when the machine reboots.
The service is now configured to start when the machine reboots.
