Part 8 - Configure Services

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Last updated: Mar 17, 2024 by Johncarlo Maddalena
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  • 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



DescriptionCommand
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
2Create 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 ~/
4Test 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


Example Output

zenops@node01:~$ sudo systemctl status -n 0 zend zentracker
● zend.service - Zen daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zend.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-05-24 22:31:30 EDT; 34s ago
Process: 21612 ExecStart=/usr/bin/zend -daemon -pid=/home/zenops/.zen/zend.pid (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 21615 (zend)

Tasks: 16

Memory: 810.0M

CPU: 18.963s

CGroup: /system.slice/zend.service

└─21615 /usr/bin/zend -daemon -pid=/home/zenops/.zen/zend.pid

● zentracker.service - Zen node daemon installed on ~/nodetracker/

Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zentracker.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2018-05-24 21:34:27 EDT; 1h 1min ago
Main PID: 19648 (node)

Tasks: 10

Memory: 38.9M

CPU: 4.110s

CGroup: /system.slice/zentracker.service

└─19648 /usr/local/bin/node /home/zenops/nodetracker/app.js

6

Follow the logs from the tracker to check for the first challenge being received, exit by pressing CTRL + c


sudo journalctl -fu zentracker
7If both systemd unit files work correctly (showing active and running in step 6) enable them at boot
sudo systemctl enable zend zentracker

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