Service

A service is a long-running process that can be started and stopped. It can be used to run background tasks, handle network requests, or interact with the system.

Create User

Create a new user called nostr to run the relay service. Creating a new user is a good practice to isolate the service from the rest of the system.

sudo adduser --disabled-login nostr

Change ownership for data directory

chown -R nostr:nostr /var/lib/nostr-rs-relay

Run script

Create a new file at /etc/systemd/system/nostr-relay.service with the following content:

[Unit]
Description=Nostr Relay
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=nostr
WorkingDirectory=/home/nostr
Environment=RUST_LOG=info,nostr_rs_relay=info
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/nostr-rs-relay --config /etc/nostr-rs-relay/config.toml
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This script tells systemd to start the relay service as the nostr user and restart it if it fails.

Start service

Start the service using the following commands:

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable nostr-relay
systemctl start nostr-relay

The relay service should now be running. You can check the status of the service using the following command:

systemctl status nostr-relay