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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