Systemd service for multics & scheduled restart of multics..

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Here is how to automatically restart a crashed multics process with systemd. (tested on ubuntu & debian)

- create a new systemd service

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/multics.service

- add the following content

[Unit]
Description=Multics daemon
After=network.target
Requires=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/var/bin/multics -b -C /var/etc/multics.cfg
ExecStop=/bin/kill -9 $MAINPID
TimeoutStopSec=1
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
StartLimitInterval=0

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

- modify this line that matches your paths & bin & config name:

ExecStart=/var/bin/multics -b -C /var/etc/multics.cfg

- once you’ve created the service, you need to reload the systemd daemons by issuing

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

- start the multics by issuing

sudo systemctl start multics

- to ensure multics starts on boot, to do that, issue the following command

sudo systemctl enable multics.service

- to check multics is running by running the following command

sudo systemctl status multics

If multics crashes it will start again automatically.

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If you want to reboot a multics (service) than you can create a cron job

- add a cron job by editing crontab with following command

sudo nano /etc/crontab

- let's say You want to restart multics at 3 AM every day, than add the following line:

00 03 * * * root systemctl restart multics

or

00 03 * * * root service multics restart

or

00 03 * * * root killall -9 multics

- after editing and saving then you need to restart the crontab with:

sudo service cron restart

That it's.

Now You have auto restart of multics proces after crash and reboot of multics at 3 AM at your VPS.