@10leej I am humbly requesting your assistance in writing one to two lines of systemd service file for a package manager I have no experience with.

@splitshockvirus hoestly what I do is copy an service file to use as a template and modify it.

What package manager and what action?

@10leej

asdf, running mix

in the execute start I need to be able to source .bashrc before executing the binary.

@splitshockvirus So here's my simple backup file. Breaking it down all you really need to do is just add your command in ExecStart and enter it in just like a terminal one liner. You can even source a executable bash script with it.

@splitshockvirus dtrop that in /etc/systemd/system/filename.service or /home/$USER/.config/systemd/user/filename.service

then run systemctl daemon-reload or reboot and you can run it.

@10leej

So here's pleroma's example service file.

https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/blob/develop/installation/pleroma.service

Observer the

ExecStart=/usr/bin/mix phx.server

@10leej mix is like an elixir or erlang thing.

You can install them normally with

sudo apt install elixir erlang-dev erlang-nox

However we can't use them because the ones for Ubuntu are too old so instead I'm trying to use a langauge manager called asdf to install elixir erlang.

@10leej

asdf can be installed easily on any distro by following here: https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html

Once you have that complete, you then need to install elixir and erlang plugins.

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-elixir
https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang

The program asdf requires you add two lines to the end of your .bashrc

. $HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh
. $HOME/.asdf/completions/asdf.bash

Those two lines are required to be sourced in order to use any program installed with asdf.

@10leej

If I used the absolute path for the then installed mix. The locataion should be

~/.asdf/shims/mix

But in order to use that path you need to source .bashrc

If you don't systemd won't have the correct scripts to run and you'll just get a start failure.