Install Flood as a service (systemd)

• Install Flood

• Create a service user for Flood

This is for security. Check Security section for more details. You may skip this section if you already have an unprivileged user.

sudo useradd --create-home --shell /bin/false download

• Create the file /etc/systemd/system/flood@.service

See distribution/shared/flood@.service

[Unit]
Description=Flood service for %I
After=network.target

[Service]
User=%I
Group=%I
Type=simple
KillMode=process
ExecStart=/usr/bin/env flood
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Here you can append parameters to flood in the ExecStart line. See Configuration for a list of available options. Use --<option>=<value> pairs. I.e

ExecStart=/usr/bin/env flood --host="127.0.0.1" --baseuri="/" --port=3000

• Enable Flood service (run at boot)

# e.g. sudo systemctl enable flood@download.service
sudo systemctl enable flood@<replace with service user>.service

• Start Flood

# e.g. sudo systemctl start flood@download.service
sudo systemctl start flood@<replace with service user>.service