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Add deploy/unibus-membershipd.service (Restart=always, binds both planes to 0.0.0.0 for LAN reachability), an idempotent deploy/install.sh that builds the binary, symlinks the unit, and enables+starts it, plus deploy/README.md with operate/health instructions. Restart=always is deliberate: a clean SIGTERM exits 0 and Restart=on-failure would not restart it, leaving the service silently dead (the sqlite_api gotcha). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Running membershipd as a systemd user service
membershipd is the unibus control plane (rooms, members, sealed keys, blob
store) and, unless you point it at an external NATS with --nats-url, it also
runs the embedded NATS + JetStream data plane. Running it as a systemd user
service keeps it alive across logout/reboot and restarts it if it crashes.
The unit (unibus-membershipd.service) binds both planes to 0.0.0.0:
| Plane | Port | Reachable from |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP control | 8470 | LAN (http://<host-ip>:8470/healthz) |
| NATS data | 4250 | LAN (nats://<host-ip>:4250) |
Install (idempotent)
cd ~/fn_registry/projects/message_bus/apps/unibus
./deploy/install.sh
This builds the binary, symlinks the unit into ~/.config/systemd/user/,
reloads systemd, and enables + starts the service.
Manual steps (what install.sh does)
cd ~/fn_registry/projects/message_bus/apps/unibus
# 1. Build the pure-Go binary (no CGO).
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o membershipd ./cmd/membershipd
# 2. Link the unit into the systemd user directory.
mkdir -p ~/.config/systemd/user
ln -sf "$PWD/deploy/unibus-membershipd.service" ~/.config/systemd/user/unibus-membershipd.service
# 3. Reload, enable (start on login) and start now.
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now unibus-membershipd.service
# (optional) survive logout without an active session:
# sudo loginctl enable-linger "$USER"
Operate
systemctl --user status unibus-membershipd.service # is it active?
systemctl --user restart unibus-membershipd.service # after a rebuild
systemctl --user stop unibus-membershipd.service
systemctl --user disable unibus-membershipd.service # stop starting on login
journalctl --user -u unibus-membershipd.service -f # follow logs
# Health (local and from another LAN host):
curl -fsS http://127.0.0.1:8470/healthz
curl -fsS http://<host-lan-ip>:8470/healthz
Notes
- Writable state (SQLite DB, JetStream store, blobs) lives under
local_files/relative toWorkingDirectory, which the unit sets to the app directory. - After editing the app code, rebuild (
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build -o membershipd ./cmd/membershipd) andsystemctl --user restart unibus-membershipd.service. - To run against an external NATS instead of the embedded one, append
--nats-url nats://<host>:4222toExecStartand re-rundaemon-reload+restart.