Run as a system service

You can optionally setup Owncast to run under systemd so it’s a managed service on your machine that automatically starts when your machine does.

A full example can be found here.

[Unit]
Description=Owncast

This is where the “functional” parts of the service live.

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=[path_to_owncast_root_directory]
ExecStart=[path_to_owncast_executable]
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5

WorkingDirectory should be where you want the owncast folder to live.

Example#

WorkingDirectory=/home/myuser/owncast

Similarly the ExecStart is the actual owncast binary.

Example#

ExecStart=/home/myuser/owncast/owncast

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Installation#

Just create the file in your systemd configuration directory (typically /etc/systemd/system/), and update the systemd daemon with: sudo systemctl daemon-reload