Subj : BBS platforms
To   : paulie420
From : Oli
Date : Wed Sep 21 2022 08:01 am

paulie420 wrote (2022-09-20):

 es>> Hey Paulie, I have mis completely managed by systemd which I find
 es>> to be pretty useful for taking down to take backups, doing system
 es>> reboots, etc., and is a "graceful" way of taking the server down to
 es>> prevent corruption issues.

 es>> Let me know if you want to go over how I have this configured!
 es>> Actually, maybe I'll just package up and release my "mystic on
 es>> ubuntu" guide :P

 p> Nice - you should release it. I once t00k a look at... theres another
 p> REALLY nicely written Mystic systemd service written by vswitchzero @
 p> https://vswitchzero.com/mystic-systemd/ , but it runs as root (there is
 p> an option to run as non-root built in...)

For not running as root you can use something like:

sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /pathto/mis

and then change User=root in mis.service to the mystic user. cap_net_bind_service=+ep allows the executable to bind to ports below 1024.

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