Daemons

General

Daemon is a common term when you use Linux kernel operating systems. It is a background program like services on Windows, which can be turned on and off automatically without affecting the user interface. You can use it to run queues, websocket, laravel-echo-server, ... FlashVPS uses Supervisor to run your command and make sure it's up and running.

Daemon Configuration

You can set up a script daemon through Daemonthe server tab. Steps to configure a script daemon:

1. At the tab Daemon> SelectDaemon mới
2. Fill in the script information you want to set up:

• Command : The command to run. VD:php artisan queue:work
• User : The system user used to invoke the command, default flashvpswill be used
• Directory : The directory to run your command from. This field can be left blank.
• Number Processes : This option determines the number of instances of the process to be continued running

3. SelectLưu

After the daemon script is successfully created, you will be able to easily perform some operations on the script as follows:

Log files

FlashVPS automatically configures your daemon to write to its own log file. Logs can be found in the /home/flashvps/.flashvps/. The log files are named daemon-*.log. If the script daemon is run as system user root, the log file will be saved at /root/.flashvps/.

! User Isolation.
If you are using FlashVPS's user isolation feature, you should navigate to the directory .flashvpsin /home/{username}the user-based directory the process belongs to to locate the daemon's log file.