Systemd and Python

Running python files with Systemd.

This service activates a virtual environment, imports database configuration file and runs a python script.

1. Change the file paths to match your directory
2. Copy example.service to the services folder /etc/systemd/system/
3. Enable the service sudo systemctl enable example.service
4. Start the service sudo systemctl start example.service
5. Check if service is working sudo systemctl status example.service
6. View journal log journalctl -u example.service -f

This requires sendmail

1. Config the bash script and change permission chmod +x /bin/unit-status-mail.sh
2. Move unit-status-mail@service to /etc/systemd/system/

Original code

http://northernlightlabs.se/systemd.status.mail.on.unit.failure

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