Starting Services

Sometimes you need to keep that terrible python server that you have built from my last post running. Or you have a better built server and you want to get up an running. Let me introduce you to the world of services!



$ man systemctl

	

SYSTEMCTL(1)                     systemctl                    SYSTEMCTL(1)

NAME
	   systemctl - Control the systemd system and service manager
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This is a tool on linux to help you manage your services.

A Service is a program that runs in the background outside of the interactive control of system users. Useful for running things like api's.

Steps:

Go to folder with all the services:


$ cd /etc/systemd/system

Make a file with your service, mine will be an 'api'


$ vim api.service

Write your service file


$ vim api.service
			
				
[Unit]
Description=API for Senior Project
[Service]
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/root/api3
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/flask --app main run --host=0.0.0.0
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then reload the dameon


$  systemctl daemon-reload

Start the service


$  start api.service

Check if it is active


$  systemctl status api.service