IPFS Daemon Debian 9

README.md

1. Compile/Download/Install as detailed at [https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs#install]. a. This should create an executable at /usr/local/bin/ipfs
2. Create a user for the service (I opted to create a regular user with a home directory where an ipfs datastore can 'live'):

$ sudo mkdir /home/ipfs
$ sudo useradd -d /home/ipfs
$ sudo chown -R ipfs:ipfs /home/ipfs
$ sudo chown root:staff /usr/local/bin/ipfs
$ sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/ipfs

3. Create a password for the user:

$ su root
# passwd ipfs #follow the prompts to create a password
# exit

4. Login as the user and initialize ipfs:

$ su ipfs
$ ipfs init
$ exit

5. Create an ipfs.service file in /etc/systemd/system
6. Enable and start the servive:

$ sudo systemctl enable ipfs
$ sudo systemctl start ipfs

7. Verify ipfs has started successfully:

$ ps ax | grep ipfs
$ tail -n 60 /var/log/syslog

Notes

• I additionally enabled websockets for the ipfs node as outlined at [https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/exchange-files-in-browser#2-make-your-daemons-listen-on-websockets].
• I then proxied websocket access via nginx

ipfs.service

[Unit]
Description=IPFS Daemon
After=network.target

[Service]
# run as root, set base_path in config.toml
#ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs --config /etc/ipfs/config
# To run as user, comment out above and uncomment below, fill in user and group
# picks up users default config in $HOME/.ipfs/
User=ipfs
Group=ipfs
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon
Restart=on-failure

# Specifies which signal to use when killing a service. Defaults to SIGTERM.
# SIGHUP gives IPFS time to exit cleanly before SIGKILL (default 90s)
KillSignal=SIGHUP

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target