Victor Walch Michnowicz

gulp-sass-watch.service

There are a few important bits in here:

• Restart and RestartSec will restart the gulp process if it fails
• User sets the user that runs the gulp process

[Unit]
Description=gulp sass:watch
After=network.target remote-fs.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=simple
PIDFile=/var/run/gulp-sass-watch.pid
Restart=always
RestartSec=3
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/html
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/rm -f /var/run/gulp-sass-watch.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/gulp sass:watch
ExecStop=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID
ExecReload=/bin/kill -s HUP $MAINPID
KillSignal=SIGQUIT
TimeoutStopSec=5
KillMode=process
PrivateTmp=true
User=dev

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Installation

1. Place gulp-sass-watch.service in /usr/lib/systemd/system/ directory.
2. Run systemctl enable gulp-sass-watch to startup service on boot
3. Run systemctl start gulp-sass-watch to startup the service immediately