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MANAGEMENT

DIS SECSHUN COVERS SUBJECTS RELATD 2 MANAGIN TEH ASF PROCES IN OPTIMAL WAI. WHILE NOT STRICTLY MANDATORY 4 USAGE, IT INCLUDEZ BUNCH OV TIPS, TRICKZ AN GUD PRACTICEZ DAT WED LIEK 2 SHARE, ESPECIALLY 4 SISTEM ADMINISTRATORS, PEEPS PACKAGIN TEH ASF 4 USAGE IN THIRD-PARTY REPOSITORIEZ, AS WELL AS ADVANCD USERS AN ALIKE.

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systemd SERVICE 4 LINUX

IN generic AN linux VARIANTS, ASF COMEZ WIF [email protected] FILE, WHICH IZ CONFIGURASHUN FILE OV TEH SERVICE 4 systemd. IF UD LIEK 2 RUN ASF AS SERVICE, 4 EXAMPLE IN ORDR 2 LAUNCH IT AUTOMATICALLY AFTR STARTUP OV UR MACHINE, DEN PROPR systemd SERVICE IZ ARGUABLY TEH BEST WAI 2 DO IT, THEREFORE WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT INSTEAD OV MANAGIN IT ON UR OWN THRU nohup, screen OR ALIKE.

FIRSTLY, CREATE TEH AKOWNT 4 DA USR U WANTS 2 RUN ASF UNDR, ASSUMIN IT DOESNT EXIST YET. WELL USE asf USR 4 DIS EXAMPLE, IF U DECIDD 2 USE DIFFERENT WAN, ULL NED 2 SUBSTITUTE asf USR IN ALL OV R EXAMPLEZ BELOW WIF UR SELECTD WAN. R SERVICE DOEZ NOT ALLOW U 2 RUN ASF AS root, SINCE IZ CONSIDERD BAD PRACTICE.

su # OR sudo -i, 2 GIT INTO ROOT SHELL
useradd -m asf # CREATE AKOWNT U INTEND 2 RUN ASF UNDR

NEXT, UNPACK ASF 2 /home/asf/ArchiSteamFarm FOLDR. TEH FOLDR STRUCCHUR IZ IMPORTANT 4 R SERVICE UNIT, IT SHUD BE ArchiSteamFarm FOLDR IN UR $HOME, SO /home/<user>. IF U DID EVRYTHIN RITE, THAR WILL BE /home/asf/ArchiSteamFarm/[email protected] FILE EXISTIN. IF URE USIN linux VARIANT AN DIDNT UNPACK TEH FILE ON LINUX, BUT 4 EXAMPLE USD FILE TRANZFR FRUM WINDOWS, DEN ULL ALSO NED 2 chmod +x /home/asf/ArchiSteamFarm/ArchiSteamFarm.

WELL DO ALL BELOW ACSHUNS AS root, SO GIT 2 ITZ SHELL WIF su OR sudo -i.

FIRSTLY IT BE GUD IDEA 2 ENSURE DAT R FOLDR STILL BELONGS 2 R asf USR, chown -hR asf:asf /home/asf/ArchiSteamFarm EXECUTD ONCE WILL DO IT. TEH PERMISHUNS CUD BE WRONG E.G. IF UVE DOWNLOADD AN/OR UNPACKD TEH ZIP FILE AS root.

SECONDLY, IF URE USIN GENERIC VARIANT OV ASF, U NED 2 ENSURE dotnet COMMAND IZ RECOGNIZD AN WITHIN WAN OV TEH STANDARD LOCASHUNS: /usr/local/bin, /usr/bin OR /bin. DIS AR TEH REQUIRD 4 R SISTEMD SERVICE WHICH EXECUTEZ dotnet /path/to/ArchiSteamFarm.dll COMMAND. CHECK IF dotnet --info WERKZ 4 U, IF YEZ, TYPE command -v dotnet 2 FIND OUT WER IZ LOCATD. IF UVE USD OFFISHUL INSTALLR, IT SHUD BE IN /usr/bin/dotnet OR WAN OV TEH 2 OTHR LOCASHUNS, WHICH IZ ALRIGHT. IF IZ IN CUSTOM LOCASHUN SUCH AS /usr/share/dotnet/dotnet, CREATE A SYMLINK 4 IT USIN ln -s "$(command -v dotnet)" /usr/bin/dotnet. NAO command -v dotnet SHUD REPORT /usr/bin/dotnet, WHICH WILL ALSO MAK R SISTEMD UNIT WERK. IF URE USIN OS-SPECIFIC VARIANT, U DOAN NED 2 DO ANYTHIN IN DIS REGARD.

NEXT, cd /etc/systemd/system AN EXECUTE ln -s /home/asf/ArchiSteamFarm/ArchiSteamFarm\@.service ., DIS WILL CREATE SYMBOLIC LINK 2 R SERVICE DECLARASHUN AN REGISTR IT IN systemd. SYMBOLIC LINK WILL ALLOW ASF 2 UPDATE UR systemd UNIT AUTOMATICALLY AS PART OV ASF UPDATE - DEPENDIN ON UR SITUASHUN, U CUD WANTS 2 USE DAT APPROACH, OR SIMPLY cp TEH FILE AN MANAGE IT YOURSELF HOWEVR UD LIEK.

AFTERWARDZ, ENSURE DAT systemd RECOGNIZEZ R SERVICE:

systemctl status ArchiSteamFarm@asf

○ [email protected] - ArchiSteamFarm Service (on asf)
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki

PAI SPESHUL ATTENSHUN 2 TEH USR WE DECLARE AFTR @, IZ asf IN R CASE. R SISTEMD SERVICE UNIT EXPEX FRUM U 2 DECLARE TEH USR, AS IT INFLUENCEZ TEH EGSAKT PLACE OV TEH BINARY /home/<user>/ArchiSteamFarm, AS WELL AS TEH AKSHUL USR SISTEMD WILL SPAWN TEH PROCES AS.

IF SISTEMD RETURND OUTPUT SIMILAR 2 ABOOV, EVRYTHIN IZ IN ORDR, AN WERE ALMOST DUN. NAO ALL DAT IZ LEFT IZ AKSHULLY STARTIN R SERVICE AS R CHOSEN USR: systemctl start ArchiSteamFarm@asf. WAIT SECOND OR 2, AN U CAN CHECK TEH STATUS AGAIN:

systemctl status ArchiSteamFarm@asf

● [email protected] - ArchiSteamFarm Service (on asf)
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/[email protected]; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since (...)
       Docs: https://github.com/JustArchiNET/ArchiSteamFarm/wiki
   Main PID: (...)
(...)

IF systemd STATEZ active (running), IT MEANZ EVRYTHIN WENT WELL, AN U CAN VERIFY DAT ASF PROCES SHUD BE UP AN RUNNIN, 4 EXAMPLE WIF journalctl -r, AS ASF BY DEFAULT ALSO WRITEZ 2 ITZ CONSOLE OUTPUT, WHICH IZ RECORDD BY systemd. IF URE SATISFID WIF TEH SETUP U HAS RITE NAO, U CAN TELL systemd 2 AUTOMATICALLY START UR SERVICE DURIN BOOT, BY EXECUTIN systemctl enable ArchiSteamFarm@asf COMMAND. THAZ ALL.

IF BY ANY CHANCE UD LIEK 2 STOP TEH PROCES, SIMPLY EXECUTE systemctl stop ArchiSteamFarm@asf. LIKEWIZE, IF U WANTS 2 DISABLE ASF FRUM BEAN STARTD AUTOMATICALLY ON BOOT, systemctl disable ArchiSteamFarm@asf WILL DO DAT 4 U, IZ VRY SIMPLE.

PLZ NOWT DAT, AS THAR IZ NO STANDARD INPUT ENABLD 4 R systemd SERVICE, U WONT BE ABLE 2 INPUT UR DETAILS THRU TEH CONSOLE IN USUAL WAI. RUNNIN THRU systemd IZ EQUIVALENT 2 SPECIFYIN Headless: true SETTIN AN COMEZ WIF ALL ITZ IMPLICASHUNS. FORTUNATELY 4 U, IZ VRY EASY 2 MANAGE UR ASF THRU ASF-UI, WHICH WE RECOMMEND IN CASE U NED 2 SUPPLY ADDISHUNAL DETAILS DURIN LOGIN OR OTHERWIZE MANAGE UR ASF PROCES FURTHR.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLEZ

IZ POSIBLE 2 SUPPLY ADDISHUNAL ENVIRONMENT VARIABLEZ 2 R systemd SERVICE, WHICH ULL BE INTERESTD IN DOIN IN CASE U WANTS 2 4 EXAMPLE USE CUSTOM --cryptkey COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENT, THEREFORE SPECIFYIN ASF_CRYPTKEY ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE.

IN ORDR 2 PROVIDE CUSTOM ENVIRONMENT VARIABLEZ, CREATE /etc/asf FOLDR (IN CASE IT DOESNT EXIST), mkdir -p /etc/asf. WE RECOMMEND 2 chown -hR root:root /etc/asf && chmod 700 /etc/asf 2 ENSURE DAT ONLY root USR HAS ACCES 2 READ DOSE FILEZ, CUZ THEY MITE CONTAIN SENSITIV PROPERTIEZ SUCH AS ASF_CRYPTKEY. AFTERWARDZ, RITE 2 /etc/asf/<user> FILE, WER <user> IZ TEH USR URE RUNNIN TEH SERVICE UNDR (asf IN R EXAMPLE ABOOV, SO /etc/asf/asf).

TEH FILE SHUD CONTAIN ALL ENVIRONMENT VARIABLEZ DAT UD LIEK 2 PROVIDE 2 TEH PROCES. DOSE DAT DO NOT HAS DEDICATD ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE, CAN BE DECLARD IN ASF_ARGS:

# DECLARE ONLY DOSE DAT U AKSHULLY NED
ASF_ARGS="--no-config-migrate --no-config-watch"
ASF_CRYPTKEY="my_super_important_secret_cryptkey"
ASF_NETWORK_GROUP="my_network_group"

# AN ANY OTHR ONEZ URE INTERESTD IN

OVERRIDIN PART OV TEH SERVICE UNIT

THX 2 TEH FLEXIBILITY OV systemd, IZ POSIBLE 2 OVERWRITE PART OV ASF UNIT WHILE STILL PRESERVIN TEH ORIGINAL UNIT FILE AN ALLOWIN ASF 2 UPDATE IT 4 EXAMPLE AS PART OV AUTO-UPDATEZ.

IN DIS EXAMPLE, WED LIEK 2 MODIFY DEFAULT ASF systemd UNIT BEHAVIOUR FRUM RESTARTIN ONLY ON SUCCES, 2 RESTARTIN ALSO ON FATAL CRASHEZ. IN ORDR 2 DO SO, WELL OVERRIDE Restart PROPERTY UNDR [Service] FRUM DEFAULT OV on-success 2 always. SIMPLY EXECUTE systemctl edit ArchiSteamFarm@asf, NATURALLY REPLACIN asf WIF TEH TARGET USR OV UR SERVICE. DEN ADD UR CHANGEZ AS INDICATD BY systemd IN PROPR SECSHUN:

### EDITIN /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/override.conf
### ANYTHIN TWEEN HER AN TEH COMMENT BELOW WILL BECOME TEH NEW CONTENTS OV TEH FILE

[Service]
Restart=always

### LINEZ BELOW DIS COMMENT WILL BE DISCARDD

### /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]
# [Install]
# WantedBy=multi-user.target
# 
# [Service]
# EnvironmentFile=-/etc/asf/%i
# ExecStart=dotnet /home/%i/ArchiSteamFarm/ArchiSteamFarm.dll --no-restart --process-required --service --system-required
# Restart=on-success
# RestartSec=1s
# SyslogIdentifier=asf-%i
# User=%i
# (...)

AN THAZ IT, NAO UR UNIT ACTS TEH SAME AS IF IT HAD ONLY Restart=always UNDR [Service].

OV COURSE, ALTERNATIV IZ 2 cp TEH FILE AN MANAGE IT YOURSELF, BUT DIS ALLOWS U 4 FLEXIBLE CHANGEZ EVEN IF U DECIDD 2 KEEP ORIGINAL ASF UNIT, 4 EXAMPLE WIF SYMLINK.

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NEVR RUN ASF AS ADMINISTRATOR!

ASF INCLUDEZ ITZ OWN VALIDASHUN WHETHR TEH PROCES IZ BEAN RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR (root) OR NOT. Running as root is not required for any kind of operation done by the ASF process, assuming properly configured environment it's operating in, and therefore should be regarded as a bad practice. DIS MEANZ DAT ON WINDOWS, ASF SHUD NEVR BE EXECUTD WIF "RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR" SETTIN, AN ON UNIX ASF SHUD HAS DEDICATD USR AKOWNT 4 ITSELF, OR RE-USE UR OWN IN CASE OV DESKTOP SISTEM.

4 FURTHR ELABORASHUN ON Y WE DISCOURAGE RUNNIN ASF AS root, REFR 2 SUPERUSR AN OTHR RESOURCEZ. IF URE STILL NOT CONVINCD, ASK YOURSELF WUT WUD HAPPEN 2 UR MACHINE IF ASF PROCES EXECUTD rm -rf /* COMMAND RITE AFTR ITZ LAUNCH.

I RUN AS root CUZ ASF CANT RITE 2 ITZ FILEZ

DIS MEANZ DAT U HAS WRONGLY CONFIGURD PERMISHUNS OV TEH FILEZ ASF IZ TRYIN 2 ACCES. U SHUD LOGIN AS root AKOWNT (EITHR WIF su OR sudo -i) AN DEN CORRECT TEH PERMISHUNS BY ISSUIN chown -hR asf:asf /path/to/ASF COMMAND, SUBSTITUTIN asf:asf WIF TEH USR DAT ULL RUN ASF UNDR, AN /path/to/ASF ACCORDINGLY. IF BY ANY CHANCE URE USIN CUSTOM --path TELLIN ASF USR 2 USE TEH DIFFERENT DIRECTORY, U SHUD EXECUTE TEH SAME COMMAND AGAIN 4 DAT PATH AS WELL.

AFTR DOIN DAT, U SHUD NO LONGR GIT ANY KIND OV ISSUE RELATD 2 ASF NOT BEAN ABLE 2 RITE OVAR ITZ OWN FILEZ, AS UVE JUS CHANGD TEH OWNR OV EVRYTHIN ASF IZ INTERESTD IN 2 TEH USR TEH ASF PROCES WILL AKSHULLY RUN UNDR.

I RUN AS root CUZ I DOAN KNOE HOW 2 DO IT OTHERWIZE

su # Or sudo -i, 2 GIT INTO ROOT SHELL
useradd -m asf # CREATE AKOWNT U INTEND 2 RUN ASF UNDR
chown -hR asf:asf /path/to/ASF # ENSURE UR NEW USR HAS ACCES 2 TEH ASF DIRECTORY
su asf -c /path/to/ASF/ArchiSteamFarm # OR sudo -u asf /path/to/ASF/ArchiSteamFarm, 2 AKSHULLY START TEH PROGRAM UNDR UR USR

DAT WUD BE DOIN IT MANUALLY, IZ MUTCH EASIR 2 USE R systemd SERVICE EXPLAIND ABOOV.

I KNOE BETTR AN I STILL WANTS 2 RUN AS root

ASF DOESNT FORCEFULLY STOP U FRUM DOIN SO, ONLY DISPLAYS WARNIN WIF SHORT NOTICE. JUS DOAN BE SHOCKD IF WAN DAI DUE 2 BUG IN DA PROGRAM ITLL BLOW UP UR WHOLE OS WIF COMPLETE DATA LOS - UVE BEEN WARND.

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MULTIPLE INSTANCEZ

ASF IZ COMPATIBLE WIF RUNNIN MULTIPLE INSTANCEZ OV TEH PROCES ON TEH SAME MACHINE. TEH INSTANCEZ CAN BE COMPLETELY STANDALONE OR DERIVD FRUM TEH SAME BINARY LOCASHUN (IN WHICH CASE, U WANTS 2 RUN THEM WIF DIFFERENT --path COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENT).

WHEN RUNNIN MULTIPLE INSTANCEZ FRUM TEH SAME BINARY, KEEP IN MIND DAT U SHUD TYPICALLY DISABLE AUTO-UPDATEZ IN ALL OV THEIR CONFIGS, AS THAR IZ NO SYNCHRONIZASHUN TWEEN THEM IN REGARDZ 2 AUTO-UPDATEZ. IF UD LIEK 2 KEEP HAVIN AUTO-UPDATEZ ENABLD, WE RECOMMEND STANDALONE INSTANCEZ, BUT U CAN STILL MAK UPDATEZ WERK, AS LONG AS U CAN ENSURE DAT ALL OTHR ASF INSTANCEZ R CLOSD.

ASF WILL DO ITZ BEST 2 MAINTAIN MINIMUM AMOUNT OV OS-WIDE, CROS-PROCES COMMUNICASHUN WIF OTHR ASF INSTANCEZ. DIS INCLUDEZ ASF CHECKIN ITZ CONFIGURASHUN DIRECTORY AGAINST OTHR INSTANCEZ, AS WELL AS SHARIN CORE PROCES-WIDE LIMITERS CONFIGURD WIF *LimiterDelay GLOBAL CONFIG PROPERTIEZ, ENSURIN DAT RUNNIN MULTIPLE ASF INSTANCEZ WILL NOT CAUSE POSIBILITY 2 RUN INTO RATE-LIMITIN ISSUE. IN REGARDZ 2 TECHNICAL ASPECTS, ALL PLATFORMS USE R DEDICATD MECHANISM OV CUSTOM ASF FILE-BASD LOCKZ CREATD IN TEMPORARY DIRECTORY, WHICH IZ C:\Users\<YourUser>\AppData\Local\Temp\ASF ON WINDOWS, AN /tmp/ASF ON UNIX.

IZ NOT REQUIRD 4 RUNNIN ASF INSTANCEZ 2 SHARE TEH SAME *LimiterDelay PROPERTIEZ, THEY CAN USE DIFFERENT VALUEZ, AS EACH ASF WILL ADD ITZ OWN CONFIGURD DELAY 2 TEH RELEASE TIEM AFTR ACQUIRIN TEH LOCK. IF TEH CONFIGURD *LimiterDelay IZ SET 2 0, ASF INSTANCE WILL ENTIRELY SKIP WAITIN 4 DA LOCK OV GIVEN RESOURCE DAT IZ SHARD WIF OTHR INSTANCEZ (DAT CUD POTENTIALLY STILL MAINTAIN SHARD LOCK WIF EACH OTHR). WHEN SET 2 ANY OTHR VALUE, ASF WILL PROPERLY SYNCHRONIZE WIF OTHR ASF INSTANCEZ AN WAIT 4 ITZ TURN, DEN RELEASE TEH LOCK AFTR CONFIGURD DELAY, ALLOWIN OTHR INSTANCEZ 2 CONTINUE.

ASF TAKEZ INTO AKOWNT WebProxy SETTIN WHEN DECIDIN BOUT SHARD SCOPE, WHICH MEANZ DAT 2 ASF INSTANCEZ USIN DIFFERENT WebProxy CONFIGURASHUNS WILL NOT SHARE THEIR LIMITERS WIF EACH OTHR. DIS AR TEH IMPLEMENTD IN ORDR 2 ALLOW WebProxy SETUPS 2 OPERATE WITHOUT EXCESIV DELAYS, AS EXPECTD FRUM DIFFERENT NETWORK INTERFACEZ. DIS SHUD BE GUD ENOUGH 4 MAJORITY OV USE CASEZ, HOWEVR, IF U HAS SPECIFIC CUSTOM SETUP IN WHICH URE E.G. ROUTIN REQUESTS YOURSELF IN DIFFERENT WAI, U CAN SPECIFY NETWORK GROUP YOURSELF THRU --network-group COMMAND-LINE ARGUMENT, WHICH WILL ALLOW U 2 DECLARE ASF GROUP DAT WILL BE SYNCHRONIZD WIF DIS INSTANCE. KEEP IN MIND DAT CUSTOM NETWORK GROUPS R USD EXCLUSIVELY, WHICH MEANZ DAT ASF WILL NO LONGR USE WebProxy 4 DETERMININ TEH RITE GROUP, AS URE IN CHARGE OV GROUPIN IN DIS CASE.

IF UD LIEK 2 UTILIZE R systemd SERVICE EXPLAIND ABOOV 4 MULTIPLE ASF INSTANCEZ, IZ VRY SIMPLE, JUS USE ANOTHR USR 4 R ArchiSteamFarm@ SERVICE DECLARASHUN AN FOLLOW WIF TEH REST OV TEH STEPS. DIS WILL BE EQUIVALENT OV RUNNIN MULTIPLE ASF INSTANCEZ WIF DISTINCT BINARIEZ, SO THEY CAN ALSO AUTO-UPDATE AN OPERATE INDEPENDENTLY OV EACH OTHR.