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  • Easiest way to start a daemon - Pi Zero

    From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to All on Friday, August 11, 2023 12:35:25
    Having finally fixed its bugs (don't ask) I have a perfect little daemon
    that pops itself in background and runs indefinitely, It isn't leaking
    memory and its not crashing and there is no reason it ever should, It
    accesses files but these will always be present and correct. It will
    never need to be killed or HUPed to relaod itself.

    What is the absolute simplest way to autostart it. /etc/init.d and a
    script linked to etc/rc?.d? systemd?

    Raspios is the Os.


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  • From yeti@3:770/3 to All on Friday, August 11, 2023 11:44:39
    ...an @reboot line in crontab?

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to yeti on Friday, August 11, 2023 13:05:08
    On 11/08/2023 12:44, yeti wrote:
    ...an @reboot line in crontab?

    Yup, I guess that's another one! I'd forgotten that!


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  • From Ahem A Rivet's Shot@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Friday, August 11, 2023 13:21:48
    On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:35:25 +0100
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    What is the absolute simplest way to autostart it. /etc/init.d and a
    script linked to etc/rc?.d? systemd?

    /etc/rc.local - if it still exists.

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  • From Chris Elvidge@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Friday, August 11, 2023 14:35:20
    On 11/08/2023 12:35, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    Having finally fixed its bugs (don't ask) I have a perfect little daemon
    that pops itself in background and runs indefinitely, It isn't leaking
    memory and its not crashing and there is no reason it ever should, It accesses files but these will always be present and correct. It will
    never need to be killed or HUPed to relaod itself.

    What is the absolute simplest way to autostart it. /etc/init.d and a
    script linked to etc/rc?.d? systemd?

    Raspios is the Os.


    I've just installed pigpiod

    /lib/systemd/system/pigpiod.service

    [Unit]
    Description=Daemon required to control GPIO pins via pigpio
    [Service]
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/pigpiod -l
    ExecStop=/bin/systemctl kill pigpiod
    Type=forking
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

    And then 'systemctl enable pigpiod.service' to put in a link in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants

    If you change the relevant lines, it should work.


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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Friday, August 11, 2023 16:14:16
    On 11/08/2023 13:21, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
    On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:35:25 +0100
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    What is the absolute simplest way to autostart it. /etc/init.d and a
    script linked to etc/rc?.d? systemd?

    /etc/rc.local - if it still exists.

    Seems to. Whether it is as redundant as tits on a bull, is less obvious.
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@3:770/3 to Chris Elvidge on Friday, August 11, 2023 16:15:32
    On 11/08/2023 14:35, Chris Elvidge wrote:
    On 11/08/2023 12:35, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    Having finally fixed its bugs (don't ask) I have a perfect little
    daemon that pops itself in background and runs indefinitely, It isn't
    leaking memory and its not crashing and there is no reason it ever
    should, It accesses files but these will always be present and
    correct.  It will never need to be killed or HUPed to relaod itself.

    What is the absolute simplest way to autostart it. /etc/init.d and a
    script linked to etc/rc?.d? systemd?

    Raspios is the Os.


    I've just installed pigpiod

    /lib/systemd/system/pigpiod.service

    [Unit]
    Description=Daemon required to control GPIO pins via pigpio
    [Service]
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/pigpiod -l
    ExecStop=/bin/systemctl kill pigpiod
    Type=forking
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

    And then 'systemctl enable pigpiod.service' to put in a link in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants

    If you change the relevant lines, it should work.


    Ah, that looks neat. Is the "Type=forking" there to tell systemd not to
    expect it *not* to return?

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  • From Chris Elvidge@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Friday, August 11, 2023 16:59:35
    On 11/08/2023 16:15, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 11/08/2023 14:35, Chris Elvidge wrote:
    On 11/08/2023 12:35, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    Having finally fixed its bugs (don't ask) I have a perfect little
    daemon that pops itself in background and runs indefinitely, It isn't
    leaking memory and its not crashing and there is no reason it ever
    should, It accesses files but these will always be present and
    correct. It will never need to be killed or HUPed to relaod itself.

    What is the absolute simplest way to autostart it. /etc/init.d and a
    script linked to etc/rc?.d? systemd?

    Raspios is the Os.


    I've just installed pigpiod

    /lib/systemd/system/pigpiod.service

    [Unit]
    Description=Daemon required to control GPIO pins via pigpio
    [Service]
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/pigpiod -l
    ExecStop=/bin/systemctl kill pigpiod
    Type=forking
    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

    And then 'systemctl enable pigpiod.service' to put in a link in
    /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants

    If you change the relevant lines, it should work.


    Ah, that looks neat. Is the "Type=forking" there to tell systemd not to expect it *not* to return?


    See: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.service.html

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  • From Knute Johnson@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Friday, August 11, 2023 10:31:57
    On 8/11/23 10:15, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    Ah, that looks neat.  Is the "Type=forking" there to tell systemd not to expect it *not* to return?


    Type=simple for a program that just goes off on its own.

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  • From Computer Nerd Kev@3:770/3 to The Natural Philosopher on Saturday, August 12, 2023 09:42:36
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 11/08/2023 13:21, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
    On Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:35:25 +0100
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    What is the absolute simplest way to autostart it. /etc/init.d and a
    script linked to etc/rc?.d? systemd?

    /etc/rc.local - if it still exists.

    Seems to. Whether it is as redundant as tits on a bull, is less obvious.

    As of some years ago it existed, but didn't do anything, in RPi OS.
    I found various guides online for enabling it with Systemd, none of
    which worked because Systemd obviously changes its workings every
    other week. I eventually wrote a script to perform all the
    ridiculously over-complicated and opaque configuration scripts to
    make it work on a fresh install. I posted that script once in this
    group. I won't bother digging it up again now because it seems
    extremely likely that by now Systemd will have changed again and it
    will be as broken in current RPi OS as the various outdated
    tutorials that I spent hours trying to follow originally.

    The complication is wanting a process to run after everything else,
    not just after some specific things have been started. Systemd is
    designed to cater for the latter case, and if you're building the
    OS from the ground up that's probably fine, but making it so
    complicated to do the former is just unforgivable in my opinion.

    I now consider RPi OS as just an example system from which to take
    inspiration for implementing software in a more sane, Systemd-free, environment.

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