Git-Auto-Deploy can be automatically started at boot time using various techniques. Below you'll find a couple of suggested approaches with instructions.
The following instructions assumes that you are running Git-Auto-Deploy from a clone of this repository. In such a case, Git-Auto-Deploy is started by invoking python -m and referencing the gitautodeploy python module which is found in the cloned repository. Such a command can look like python -m /path/to/Git-Auto-Deploy/gitautodeploy --daemon-mode.
If you have used any of the alternative installation methods (install with pip or as a debian package), you will instead start Git-Auto-Deploy using a installed executable. Git-Auto-Deploy would then be started using a command like git-auto-deploy --daemon-mode instead. If you have installed Git-Auto-Deploy in this way, you will need to modify the paths and commands used in the instructions below.
The easiest way to configure your system to automatically start Git-Auto-Deploy after a reboot is using crontab. Open crontab in edit mode using crontab -e and add the following:
@reboot /usr/bin/python -m /path/to/Git-Auto-Deploy/gitautodeploy --daemon-mode --quiet
Copy the sample init script into /etc/init.d/ and make it executable.
cp platforms/linux/initfiles/debianLSBInitScripts/git-auto-deploy /etc/init.d/
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/git-auto-deploy
Important: The init script assumes that you have Git-Auto-Deploy installed in /opt/Git-Auto-Deploy/ and that the pidfilepath config option is set to /var/run/git-auto-deploy.pid. If this is not the case, edit the git-auto-deploy init script and modify DAEMON, PWD and PIDFILE.
Important: The init script will run GAD as the root user by default, which is convenient but not secure. The recommended way to run GAD is to set up a separate user and modify the init script to run GAD as that user. When running GAD as a user other than root, you will need to make sure that the correct permissions are set on all directories and files that GAD requires access to (such as the path specified in the variable PIDFILE and LOGFIE in the init script).
Now you need to add the correct symbolic link to your specific runlevel dir to get the script executed on each start up. On Debian_Sys-V just do;
update-rc.d git-auto-deploy defaults
Fire it up and verify;
service git-auto-deploy start
service git-auto-deploy status
Copy the sample systemd service file git-auto-deploy.service into /etc/systemd/system;
cp platforms/linux/initfiles/systemd/git-auto-deploy.service /etc/systemd/system
Create the user and group specified in git-auto-deploy.service (www-data) if those do not exist already.
useradd -U www-data
This init script assumes that you have Git-Auto-Deploy installed in /opt/Git-Auto-Deploy/. If this is not the case, edit the git-auto-deploy.service service file and modify ExecStart and WorkingDirectory.
Now, reload daemons and fire ut up;
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl start git-auto-deploy
Make is start automatically on system boot;
systemctl enable gitautodeploy
Have a look at this script which was kindly provided by #192. Usage:
Start:
GitAutoDeploy_Service.sh start
Stop:
GitAutoDeploy_Service.sh stop
Stop:
GitAutoDeploy_Service.sh restart