This how-to describes the steps to set up elementsd as a service running in background. Assumptions Your elementsd is in /usr/local/bin/ You will run elementsd as the user liquid1 The service will be named elementsd The tests were done on Ubuntu 22.04, but the procedure/commands should work on most Linux distributions. Steps 1. Create a file /etc/systemd/system/elementsd.service with the following content: [Unit]Description=Liquid daemonAfter=network-online.target[Service]User=liquid1Group=liquid1Type=simpleExecStart=/usr/local/bin/elementsdPrivateTmp=trueTimeoutStopSec=1200sTimeoutStartSec=5s# Fail when 10 tries within 1 minute fail (never)StartLimitInterval=60sStartLimitBurst=10# Limit attempts to 1 per 10 secondsRestart=alwaysRestartSec=10[Install]WantedBy=multi-user.target 2. Check user and group (if the user doesn't exist, create it using useradd -m liquid1). 3. Run: systemctl daemon-reload 4. Place your elements config file in /home/liquid1/.elements/elements.conf and configure the right values to connect to bitcoind (or set validatepegin=0 instead). Also, you will need to set daemon=0. 5. To set up the service to start on boot up (and also execute it now), run: systemctl enable --now elementsd 6. You can check that the service is running correctly by running: journalctl -efu elementsd
