IceWreck / PicoInit

Pico Init is an init system / service manager for seedboxes and non-root user accounts.

PicoInit

Init system / service manager for seedboxes and non-root user accounts.

NOTE: Don't rely on this for production software, this was written in two hours with ZERO research on how init systems work.

Need

Tl;dr: Seedbox didnt have systemd or any init system accessible to users and relied on weird cron hack to launch applications in GNU Screen, and this hack called PicoInit is better than said cron hack.

Usage

• Compile the executable or download from the releases here.
• Make a new folder and put the executable in it.
• Create a file called picoinit_config.json and a folder called logs in the same folder as your executable.
• Fillup picoinit_config.json
• Find a way to run this in the background. Use screen/tmux if you cant find anything.
• Your service logs will be stored in the logs folder.
• There is no way to add or manually restart a service without killing and restarting PicoInit.

Example picoinit_config.json provided in this repo.

Key	Value
name	A name for your service without spaces.
workdir	Working directory (absolute path) from where the service should be run. Leave it empty if not required.
cmd	Your service's command to execute. It shoud either be an absolute or the bin should be in your path.
restart	Restart policy for your service. One of always, never and on_error.