Matterbridge as a linux systemd service

[realrolfje]

Add scripts to have matterbridge run as a systemd daemon in Linux.

[42wim]

Hi, thanks for the PR!
It seems like a mix between a sysv initscript and systemd though?

[realrolfje]

Could be. I cobbled it together based on the mattermost init.d script, I'm no expert. We needed it because when a connection drops, de bridge seemed to stop working. I decided that having it as a service would be nice, so we can do an easy restart, while also having the benefit of automatic starting at boot.

If you have tips or pointers on how to improve the script I'd be happy to improve this pull request.

[42wim]

An example for a true systemd service unit can be found here
#116 (comment)

Normally you put those files in /etc/systemd/system

The daemon-reload, enable and start commands remain the same.

[heinrich5991]

I have this:

[Unit]
Description=matterbridge
After=network.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/matterbridge -conf /etc/matterbridge/bridge.toml
User=matterbridge
Group=matterbridge

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Should I make a pull request? It's helpful when projects have some standard service files. :)

[42wim]

@heinrich5991 looks good, sure, go ahead :)

[patcon]

FYI, this is something related, which we could consider directing folks toward instead of including init scripts :)
https://github.com/jordansissel/pleaserun

[patcon]

So this would mean:

sudo mkdir -p /opt/matterbridge/bin
sudo cp matterbridge-$ARCH /opt/matterbridge/bin
gem install pleaserun
sudo pleaserun --install /opt/matterbridge/bin/matterbridge

Puts it in the users hands to install ruby, but then it works on any platform pleaserun supports :)

[42wim]

@patcon feel free to edit stuff about this on the wiki, I'm going to close this PR now as @heinrich5991 #291 is merged.