Running Cells as a service with Systemd

You can use systemd as a way to run cells as a service, it will provide you advantages such as automatically restarting your cells after failure.

Note: this configuration assume you have done a vanilla setup following our installation guides. Adapt to your specific setup if necessary.

Create new /etc/systemd/system/cells.service file with following content:

[Unit]
Description=Pydio Cells
Documentation=https://pydio.com
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
AssertFileIsExecutable=/home/pydio/cells
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/pydio/.config/
User=pydio
Group=pydio
PermissionsStartOnly=true
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c 'exec /home/pydio/cells start &>> /home/pydio/.config/pydio/cells/logs/cells.log'
Restart=on-failure
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=inherit
LimitNOFILE=65536
TimeoutStopSec=5
KillSignal=INT
SendSIGKILL=yes
SuccessExitStatus=0
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

If you are running Pydio Cells in a production environment, you probably want to enable production logging:

# Add en environment variable in the [Service] section
Environment=PYDIO_LOGS_LEVEL=production

Then, enable and start the service:

sudo systemctl enable cells
sudo systemctl start cells

Logs can then be found in /home/pydio/.config/pydio/cells/logs/cells.log.

Alternative configuration

If you prefer having the logs integrated in the standard journalctl service, you can replace the ExecStart directive from the above file with:

ExecStart=/home/pydio/cells start

The output of the service can then be tailed with this command:

```sh sudo journalctl -f -u cells