Add steps to create systemd services #63
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Hey @nithinphilips I like the idea of adding systemd documentation, but your PR is based on an older version of the doc (I've updated the instructions to use Thanks! |
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Sure thing. I've updated the doc. Not sure if I rebased it correctly, but let me know if I need to redo it. |
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Are these meant to be "tasks" and not just an unsorted list?
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| sudo cat > /etc/systemd/system/scrutiny-collector.service <<EOF | ||
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| Description=Scrutiny disk health data collector | ||
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| Type=idle | ||
| ExecStart=/opt/scrutiny/bin/scrutiny-collector-metrics-linux-amd64 run --api-endpoint "http://localhost:8080" | ||
| TimeoutStartSec=600 | ||
| TimeoutStopSec=600 | ||
| EOF | ||
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Migt make sense to specify lang (use ```\sh) and then make it a long list with comments in there like
# Create this file
sudo cat file <EOF
...
EOF
# Create that
sudo cat file <EOF
...
EOF
# Enable timer
systemctl this
systemctl that| systemctl enable scrutiny-collector.timer | ||
| systemctl start scrutiny-collector.timer |
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could shorten with systemctl enable --now scutiny-collector.timer
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Just added a type correction 🙂 systemctl enable --now scrutiny-collector.timer
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Over the weekend I created Arch packages for the main server and the collector: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/scrutiny/ Which includes systemd units:
The server units here are much more restrictive than the ones proposed in this PR, which is important given the collector must be run with root privileges. |
IIRC you do not need I'm not sure if the same functionality is present with the |
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Hi, i was planning on adding the same systemd configuration. Can I do something to contribute in this PR? Or should I open my own PR? |
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Adding steps to optionally run Scrutiny as a systemd service.
scrutinyuser.root. Scheduling is done by a systemd timer (every 15 mins, same as it is documented now)