Hi people, I’m building an app using IPFS for decentralized storage, but right now I only have 1 node, which is running on ubuntu on AWS. The daemon won’t stay alive for long periods of time, and I can’t figure out why (aside: can anyone recommend how to do logging properly to find these issues). R…

Try looking at the logs via journalctl, you can do it like this: journalctl --unit ipfs but replace ipfs with the name of your unit. We’re running IPFS via systemctl and AWS for Jenkins archiving, and the daemon runs fine. First place to look for issues is the logs. If there is nothing in the ipfs-…

@JoseMiguelHerrera This is how I’ve been using it with systemd: https://github.com/claudiobizzotto/ipfs-rpi/blob/master/templates/ipfs-daemon.service.tpl Just replace {{ipfs_path}} with the path to your IPFS directory (eg.: /home/my-username/.ipfs) and you should be good to go.

Thanks for this answer, It will help me also.

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