systemd configuration

Systemd service (linux only)

Courtesy of @lavaground

The systemd-version used for this setup is 219, we'll be using a venv for python and nano for text-operations, the sample user is called ec2-user and the bot is cloned to /home/ec2-user/bot.

Paste code in nano = mouse-rightclick

SAVE file in nano = CTRL + O followed by ENTER

EXIT file in nano = CTRL + X

Create the service config file via opening the texteditor 'nano'

sudo nano /lib/systemd/system/binancebot.service

Paste the following code into the file, edit paths and user in WorkingDirectory, User and ExecStart to suite your settings, SAVE and EXIT

[Unit]
Description=Binance Bot Service
After=multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=idle
WorkingDirectory=/home/ec2-user/bot
User=ec2-user
ExecStart=/home/ec2-user/bot/.venv/bin/python3 -u '/home/ec2-user/bot/Binance Detect Moonings.py'
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog
SyslogIdentifier=binance-bot
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Create the rsyslog configuration via opening the texteditor 'nano'

sudo nano /etc/rsyslog.d/binancebot.conf

Paste the following code into the file (rightclick), SAVE and EXIT

template(name="bot-tmplt" type="string"
            string="%msg:1:$%\n"
        )
if $programname == "binance-bot" then /var/log/binancebot/bot.log;bot-tmplt
& stop

Create the logfile folder

sudo mkdir /var/log/binancebot

Just to be on the safe side: Create the logfile in the folder, SAVE and EXIT

sudo nano /var/log/binancebot/bot.log

Refresh services list

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

Restart rsyslog service (i think this could be skipped as we are rebooting soon)

sudo systemctl restart rsyslog

Enable the Binance Bot service to run at system boot

sudo systemctl enable binancebot

Reboot the machine

sudo reboot

Now we have setup the bot as a service and it autostarts with the machine.

How to / Commands:

We can manually start, stop, restart and view the status of the service with the following commands:

sudo systemctl start binancebot

sudo systemctl stop binancebot

sudo systemctl restart binancebot

sudo systemctl status binancebot

To view the log file we can use e.g. tail or mutlitail (if installed)

tail -f -n 100 /var/log/binancebot/bot.log

Any changes to the config files of either of the services will need to be applied with at least:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl restart SERVICENAME

Changing the config.yml of the bot requires sudo systemctl restart binancebot to be applied.