Add systemd postinstall script about oasis

[christianbundy]

Super basic idea: make an "start Oasis when my computer starts" button in the settings that only appears if you have systemd. If you select that option, we install the service and enable it.

[jedahan]

We could make it a node script to make it portable

[RangerMauve]

@christianbundy Thanks for the ping! I was contemplating doing that, but I got a little spooked by getting it to work cross platform.

I had some rough times getting a similar flow working for dat-store with os-service so I gave up and left it up to users to figure out to save energy for myself. 😛

I was low key thinking of using pm2 since that's what hyperdrive-daemon does.

I mostly set up the systemd guide so that people could set up their own proxy server on a linux box somewhere.

[christianbundy]

This is a really interesting idea, I'd like to think about this a bit more and hear input from others.

Do you know of any similar projects that do this? I'd love to make it easier to run Oasis as a service but I'm hesitant to add unexpected files. Would this happen only on an npm --global install?

Aside: I really appreciate that your scripts respect $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $SYSTEMD_USER_HOME, thanks for your attention to detail.

[jedahan]

Yeah, this would only run on postinstall globally.

"scripts": {
  "postinstall": "test \"$npm_config_global\" && ./contrib/install-systemd-service.bash || true"
}

[christianbundy]

Would that work on Windows machines that don't have Bash? I think I'd be comfortable with this as long as it's super robust. Being able to run an SSB service in the background has been a game-changer for me, it feels really good.

[christianbundy]

@RangerMauve

I noticed that you recently published hyperswarm-web, and the readme has systemd instructions. Do you think it would be appropriate for that to be done automatically if someone installed globally? i.e.

npm --global install hyperswarm-web

Also, you might get a kick out of the config that @jedahan put together in #35.

[RangerMauve]

I'm gonna add checking out your install scripts to my TODO list. 💜

[christianbundy]

Thanks for the links @RangerMauve!

Aside: Saw this today, maybe it would be easy to add a macOS integration too? 🤔

[christianbundy]

Just had an idea: maybe if we detect that we're on Linux we could add a button for this in the web UI? We already know how to install and enable the service with Node.js, and we could probably even make it configurable (host/port/etc). ❗

[jedahan]

serviceman seems pretty sweet as well

[christianbundy]

That does look pretty sweet. I'm happy that there seem to be lots of options, but unfortunately that means lots of research.

[christianbundy]

Also: I think it might be nice to re-add a regular systemd config. I realized that that's what I'm using on my server to host oasis-demo 😅