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Install Flood as a service (systemd)

jdarias edited this page Mar 10, 2021 · 7 revisions
  • Install Flood

  • Create a service user for Flood

This is for security. Check Security section for more details. You may skip this section if you already have an unprivileged user.

sudo useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false download

See distribution/shared/[email protected]

[Unit]
Description=Flood service for %I
After=network.target

[Service]
User=%I
Group=%I
Type=simple
KillMode=process
ExecStart=/usr/bin/env flood
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Here you can append parameters to flood in the ExecStart line. See Configuration for a list of available options. Use --<option>=<value> pairs. I.e

ExecStart=/usr/bin/env flood --host="127.0.0.1" --baseuri="/" --port=3000
  • Enable Flood service (run at boot)
# e.g. sudo systemctl enable [email protected]
sudo systemctl enable flood@<replace with service user>.service
  • Start Flood
# e.g. sudo systemctl start [email protected]
sudo systemctl start flood@<replace with service user>.service