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Add a tutorial covering how to run Flox environment services as persistent systemd units, both as user units and system units. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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I haven't tried the instructions end-to-end but happy to pending the conversation in: https://flox-dev.slack.com/archives/C097184TDUL/p1773241852880549
- Add Constraints section documenting known limitations - Move linger explanation next to the enable-linger command - Use consistent user/system unit terminology in headings - Use flox activate -c instead of bash -c in system unit ExecStart - Use user's own environment for redis-cli verification Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user/ before creating the unit file since the directory may not exist on a fresh system. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Use flox activate -c consistently instead of -- bash -c - Use $REDISPORT env var instead of hardcoded port in verify commands - Add user unit and system unit cleanup sections - Run flox pull as redis user with sudo -u redis - Reorder chown before flox pull in system unit setup - Add mkdir -p for systemd user unit directory Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add context explaining why you might want to register Flox services with systemd, such as auto-starting on boot or crash recovery. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Ok, I updated all the issues and tested it on a brand new Ubuntu 24.04 VM and it all worked. |
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