pYSFReflector/systemd

Running the pYSFReflector as a Service

Most of us will run the pYSFReflector as a service to be started automatically at system startup. A common way to realize this is using startup-scripts. Almost all modern Linux-systems support systemd-startup-system.

The script you find here in this directory is such a systemd-startup-script. Simply copy it (as root) into /etc/systemd/system and use the following commands to make it running:

sudo systemctl enable YSFReflector.service

and for starting it initially:

sudo systemctl start YSFReflector.service

But before you start the reflector with this command keep sure to have following steps done:

a) Add a group named mmdvm to your system-groups with: sudo groupadd mmdvm

b) After this add the system-user mmdvm to your users with: sudo useradd mmdvm -g mmdvm -s /sbin/nologin

c) make the logdir configured in your YSFReflector.ini owned by mmdvm for example like this: sudo chown -R mmdvm:mmdvm /var/log/YSFReflector

Now all is prepared for starting the reflector automatically.

To control the reflector's functions you could use following commands:

sudo systemctl start YSFReflector.service starts the reflector if not running

sudo systemctl stop YSFReflector.service stops the reflector

sudo systemctl restart YSFReflector.service restarts a running reflector (for example after changeing YSFReflector.ini)

sudo systemctl status YSFReflector.service shows actual running state of reflector