Starting Orthanc as a GNU/Linux daemon ¶

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“init” flavor ¶

To install Orthanc as a GNU/Linux init daemon on a Debian/Ubuntu system, you can:

Download this service script (this file is part of the official Debian package of Orthanc),
Adapt some of its variables to reflect the configuration of your system,
Copy it in /etc/init.d as root (the filename cannot contain dot, otherwise it is not executed), make it belong to root, and tag it as executable:
```
$ sudo mv orthanc.init /etc/init.d/orthanc
$ sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/orthanc
$ sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/orthanc
```
If you wish the daemon to be automatically launched at boot time and stopped at shutdown:
```
$ sudo update-rc.d orthanc defaults
```
If you wish to remove the automatic launching at boot time later on:
```
$ sudo update-rc.d -f orthanc remove
```

Note: You can use rcconf to easily monitor the services that are run at startup:

$ sudo apt-get install rcconf

A sample systemd daemon for Orthanc can be found in the official Debian package and in the official Fedora package (now orphaned - please consider contributing by adopting this package):

Start the daemon as follows:

$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl start orthanc.service

To make this change permanent after a reboot, you can create a symbolic link as follows:

$ sudo ln -s /etc/systemd/system/orthanc.service /etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants/

The instructions above have been tested on Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora systems, but should work similarly on other GNU/Linux distributions.