Rapid-yield-assessment tool (RYA) API

Turning into a service

Please note that although systemd has become the default init system for many Linux distributions, it isn’t implemented universally across all distros. As you go through this tutorial, if your terminal outputs the error bash: systemctl is not installed then it is likely that your machine has a different init system installed.

Let’s create a file called /etc/systemd/system/rya.service:

[Unit]
Description=RYA API service
After=network.target
StartLimitBurst=5  
StartLimitIntervalSec=10

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=30
User=akilimo
ExecStart=/usr/bin/Rscript /home/akilimo/services/rya/server.R

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

You’ll need to:

• set your actual username after User=
• set the proper path to your script in ExecStart=

That’s it. We can now start the service:

$ systemctl start rya

And automatically get it to start on boot:

$ systemctl enable rya