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Created June 2, 2019 22:13
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Systemd service file. Includes environment variables and logging.
[Unit]
Description=Web Client Service
After=multi-user.target
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service
[Service]
Type=simple
# optional environment variable location which will be converted to variables readable by this file
# in this case $FLAGS
EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/webclient
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /usr/local/bin/client/main.py $FLAGS
StandardInput=tty-force
# comment out the standard output or error if script includes logging to a file already
StandardOutput=file:/var/log/webclient.log
StandardError=file:/var/log/webclient.log
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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