Human Bean

Simplifying Linux Service Management in Python

SystemCtl Image

I’ve been working on Db4E, my Monero deployment, operations and analytics platform. It uses Linux systemd to spin up manage Monero, P2Pool and XMRig instances as well as the Db4E service itself. As part of that work, I created SystemCtl, a small Python module that wraps the Linux systemctl command in a clean, object-oriented API. Basically, it lets you manage systemd services from Python - no more parsing shell output!

from systemctl import SystemCtl

monerod = SystemCtl("monerod")
if not monerod.running():
    monerod.start()
print(f"Monerod PID: {monerod.pid()}")

I realized it was useful in all sorts of contexts, dashboards, automation scripts, deployment tools… So I’ve created a PyPI package to make it generally available.

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