Install flood with a service account

ArchLinux - system nodejs

This example is given for ArchLinux or derivated, others distros may adjust some commands.

• Follow pre-requisites part of the README.
• Install nodejs and npm globally, don't do a per user installation:

# pacman -Syy
# pacman -S nodejs npm

• Create a flood user:

# useradd -m flood
# passwd flood

• Install flood in /srv/flood and connect as flood user:

# cd /srv
# git clone https://github.com/jfurrow/flood.git flood
# chown -R flood:flood /srv/flood
# cd /srv/flood
# su flood

• Follow Compiling assets and starting the server
• Create the file /etc/systemd/system/flood.service:

[Unit]
Description=Flood rTorrent Web UI
After=network.target

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/srv/flood
ExecStart=/usr/bin/npm start /srv/flood
User=flood

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Start flood:

# systemctl start flood.service

ArchLinux - nodenv

• Follow pre-requisites part of the README.

• Create a flood user:

# useradd -m flood
# passwd flood

• Install flood in /srv/flood and connect as flood user:

# cd /srv
# git clone https://github.com/jfurrow/flood.git flood
# chown -R flood:flood /srv/flood
# cd /srv/flood
# su flood

• Install nodenv
• Once nodenv was fully installed and that you installed a compatible node version (eg: v10), in flood root folder do nodenv local 10.14.0 (to set the node version to use for flood)
• Follow Compiling assets and starting the server
• Create the file /etc/systemd/system/flood.service:

[Unit]
Description=Flood, web interface for rTorrent
After=network.target

[Service]
User=flood
ExecStart=/home/flood/.nodenv/bin/nodenv exec npm start /srv/flood
WorkingDirectory=/srv/flood/
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Start flood:

# systemctl start flood.service

original author: noraj