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Created November 26, 2020 22:34 — forked from swaldman/GethAsAService.md
Setting up geth as a service under systemd (Updated for Fedora 27)

Setting up geth as a service under systemd Fedora 27

Prerequisite: dnf install golang

  1. Create user geth with useradd
  2. As user geth fast sync the blockchain, geth --fast --cache 1024
  3. Manually run geth --rpc as user geth and watch to see that the blockchain continues to sync properly
  4. Install the geth.service file (also in this gist) in /usr/lib/systemd/system/
  5. Make a symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/geth.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/geth.service
  6. systemctl enable geth followed by systemctl start geth