How to create a custom service that will autostart on boot on Archlinux?

Solution 1:

Try this:

[Unit]
Description=Fatrat NoGui Web Access Service
Requires=network.target
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/fatrat -n
Type=forking

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• I assumed, that a "Web Access Service" needs network, so I added network.target as a requirement.

• Using nohup is unnecessary because this functionality is provided by systemd itself, same for the '&'.

• Because we don't use nohup anymore, the type would change to simple, however, the web interface available on the git release won't work unless we make it forking.

• For more information on systemd service files see the "systemd.service" man page and https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd#Writing_custom_.service_files

• You might consider to add Restart=always to the [Service] section to get it restarted automatically if it crashes.

• Put the service file at /etc/systemd/system/fatrat.service and enable it for automatic startup via systemctl enable fatrat.service