Grott as a service (Linux) - johanmeijer/grott GitHub Wiki

How to setup Grott as service with auto startup after boot

To enable continous Grott monitoring Grott can be runned as a standard linux service (deamon).

Add grott.service

• copy grott.service in etc/systemd/system

Enable service

• sudo systemctl enable grott

Start Service

• sudo systemctl start grott

or

• sudo service grott start

Stop Service

• sudo systemctl stop grott

or

• sudo service grott stop

Show status of the service:

• sudo systemctl status grott

or

• sudo service grott status

Journalctl

By default te grott service is sending the messages to the standard jounal system (syslog). -v option is specified for more information.

you can read the actual system journal by:

• journalctl (displays actual journal file in total)

or

• journalctl -u grott (displays only the grott messages)