I think I've gone through 4 different init systems, and SystemD is fairly easy to get a daemon running. Here's an example config: # sudo useradd -r -s /bin/f

I think I've gone through 4 different init systems, and SystemD is fairly easy to get a daemon running. Here's an example config: # sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false userofservice # sudo cp thisfile.systemd /etc/systemd/system/nameofservice.service # sudo systemctl enable nameofservice || sudo systemctl daemon-reload # sudo systemctl start nameofservice [Unit] Description=What the service dose Wants=network-online.target After=syslog.target network.target network-online.target [Service] User=userofservice Group=userofservice WorkingDirectory=/srv/nameofservice/ ExecStart=/usr/bin/runtime somescript.xyz ExecStopPost=+/srv/crashreport/report.xyz %n Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target