Bash Cookbook

How to do it...

Let's start our activity as follows:

1. Create a script called myscript.sh with the following contents:

#!/bin/bashfor (( ; ; ))do   sleep 1done

2. Next, let's add the correct permissions to the script so that we can create a systemd service using it. Notice the use of the sudo command—enter your password where appropriate:

$ sudo cp myscript.sh /usr/bin$ sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/myscript.sh

3. Now that we have something to execute on start, we need to create a service configuration file to describe our service; we used vi in this example and sudo (note down its location):

$ sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/myscript.service [Unit]Description=myscript[Service]ExecStart=/usr/bin/myscript.shExecStop=killall myscript.sh[Install]WantedBy=multi-user.target ...