A Simple init.d Script and Watchdog for Daemonizing IPFS
A simple SysV init script and watchdog for daemonizing IPFS. After you install ipfs (which I recommend doing using the install script which comes with IPFS), then you should simply run the install.sh script from this repo.
This will do a couple things.
- It will create a daemon user "ipfsd" and ipfsd service on the system, and add it to your boot sequence.
- Add a watchdog cronjob which will try to restart ipfsd every now and then if it is stopped.
Future Work
I'd love to eventually add a systemd service version of this as well. Also, I'm not sure about how this will work on all systems. I tested it on Fedora 23. The installer has a bit of system-specific instructions down at the bottom, which may need to be extended to properly set up rc.d files on other systems.
License
Copyright (C) 2015 Jeff Cochran
This is open source software, licensed under the MIT License. See the file LICENSE for details.
Forked from https://github.com/fhd/init-script-template Which is released under MIT License as well, and is Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Felix H. Dahlke