Linux 101 : Starting custom process at boot time - Systemd -

When we want to create a daemon out or a program, so it is managed by "systemd", we follow the below steps.

We start by creating a simple "systemd" unit file for our program:

We then copy our unit file into the "/usr/lib/systemd/system" directory:

Then we reload the systemd, so that the new service is included:

We start our daemon using the below command:

We could check the status of the service using the below command:

To enable our service so it starts after each reboot, we use the below command:

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