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Setting up geth as a service under systemd Fedora 27

Prerequisite: dnf install golang

1. Create user geth with useradd
2. As user geth fast sync the blockchain, geth --fast --cache 1024
3. Manually run geth --rpc as user geth and watch to see that the blockchain continues to sync properly
4. Install the geth.service file (also in this gist) in /usr/lib/systemd/system/
5. Make a symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/geth.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/geth.service
6. systemctl enable geth followed by systemctl start geth