• I run all [[agora]] services as systemd [[user services]].
  • How to keep a user process running:
    • [[go]] https://jimsaunders.net/2017/08/03/simple-per-user-systemd.html
  • Before you can run enable (making it sticky across reboots) above, you’ll probably need to enable lingering for the user in question. As root (ask your friendly sysadmin if you somehow don’t have root):
    • loginctl enable-linger username
  • If you get any bus errors, you may need to:
    • export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/\id -u“
  • Scripts go in .config/systemd/user/, add an example.service file and then:
    • systemctl --user start example
    • systemctl --user enable example
  • See agora-server.service in [[go/agora-server]] as an example.
  • If you want to refer to the home directory in a user systemd service (I use a lot of these, also on my workstations), you can use the variable %h for it. ~, $HOME won’t work.

Suddenly systemctl --user status agora-bot mastodon replies:

Warning: Journal has been rotated since unit was started. Log output is incompl

• [[flancian]] https://social.coop/@flancian/108963078192784149 pull
• [[librebits]] https://masto.nobigtech.es/@librebits/109177272371064924 pull
• [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/109916908939538191 pull
• [[flancian@social.coop]] https://social.coop/@flancian/111642785044034175 pull

• [[flancian]] https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1567870681072779264 pull

• [[2022-02-27 19:32:04]]
  • [[@flancian:matrix.org]] https://develop.element.io/#/room/!fHgbulHAlFZEKtEnIM:matrix.org/$0hQZxMq3DDxGPOsQ8PPdJoE6yaREQswng6Jg71d3NZM

• [[2023-02-24 00:35:27+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):

  • A tech-minded confession: literally years after starting to use [[systemd]] I’ve finally found the right incantation to be able to see logs for a service beyond what [[systemctl]] shows (truncated).

    In the case of user services (which the Agora runs on), it’s:

    `journalctl —user-unit <service>`

    There’s several other flags which sound promising at first but don’t work, like -u.

• [[2023-12-25 19:48:27+00:00]] @[[flancian@social.coop]] (link):

  • @enkiv2 I thought you might be interested :)

    https://anagora.org/system2 thanks for your contribution — I got here through [[systemd]] of all places ;)