Part 8 - Configure Services
Create systemd service units for zend and tracker
Stop zend
Start zend and zentracker services
Get status of zend and zentracker services
Enable units at boot
Description | Command | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Create a systemd unit file for zend, copy and paste the entire block of text | echo \
"[Unit]
Description=Zen daemon
[Service]
User=$USER
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/bin/zend -daemon -pid=$HOME/.zen/zend.pid
PIDFile=$HOME/.zen/zend.pid
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target" | sudo tee /lib/systemd/system/zend.service |
| 2 | Create a systemd unit file for the Node Tracker, copy and paste the entire block of text | echo \
"[Unit]
Description=Zen node daemon installed on ~/nodetracker/
[Service]
User=$USER
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=$HOME/nodetracker/
ExecStart=$(which node) $HOME/nodetracker/app.js
Restart=always
RestartSec=10
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target" | sudo tee /lib/systemd/system/zentracker.service |
| 3 | Stop zend and apply ownership to the non-root user of all files created since part 6.8
| zen-cli stop && sleep 30 && sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/ |
| 4 | Test the unit files | sudo systemctl start zend zentracker |
| 5 | Check the status of both zend and the tracker, both should return active (running). If the status doesn't send you back to a command prompt, exit the status details by pressing CTRL + c
| sudo systemctl status -n 0 zend zentracker
|
| 6 | Follow the logs from the tracker to check for the first challenge being received, exit by pressing CTRL + c
| sudo journalctl -fu zentracker |
| 7 | If both systemd unit files work correctly (showing active and running in step 6) enable them at boot | sudo systemctl enable zend zentracker |