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+
+# READ ALL STEPS BEFORE PROCEEDING
+#
+# 0) Change the daemon_directory setting in your configuration file to 
+#    /var/run/talawa-api
+# 1) Copy this file to one of these directories depending on your Linux version
+#        i.  RedHat variants: /usr/lib/systemd/system/
+#        ii. Debian/Ubuntu variants: /lib/systemd/system/
+# 2) Edit the CODEROOT path to be the full path of the Talawa API's root directory
+# 3) Edit the TALAWA_API_CONFIGDIR path to be the full path of the Talawa API's configuration directory
+#    This defaults to /etc/ directory of the Talawa API codebase
+# 4) Edit the User and Group to match the POSIX user you want the daemon
+#    to run as.
+# 4a) Set appropriate permissions:
+#     sudo chown -R talawa:talawa /etc/talawa
+#     sudo chmod 750 /etc/talawa
+# 4b) If using SELinux, set the correct context:
+#     sudo semanage fcontext -a -t bin_t "/home/talawa/talawa-api/main.py"
+#     sudo restorecon -v /home/talawa/talawa-api/main.py
+# 5) Run the command "sudo systemctl daemon-reload". This needs to be run only once
+# 6) Run the command "sudo systemctl start talawa-api.service" to start
+# 7) Run the command "sudo systemctl stop talawa-api.service" to stop
+# 8) Run the command "sudo systemctl restart talawa-api.service" to restart
+# 9) Run the command "sudo systemctl enable talawa-api.service" to make
+#    talawa-api start automatically on boot
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Talawa API Service
+After=network.target
+
+Documentation=https://github.com/talawa-api/
+After=postgresql.service redis.service
+Requires=postgresql.service
+Wants=redis.service
+
+[Service]
+User=talawa
+Group=talawa
+
+Environment=CODEROOT=/home/talawa/talawa-api
+Environment=TALAWA_API_CONFIGDIR=/etc/talawa
+Environment=VIRTUAL_ENV=$CODEROOT/venv/bin
+Environment=PATH=$VIRTUAL_ENV:$PATH
+Environment=START=--start "STOP=--stop --force" "RESTART=--restart --force"
+EnvironmentFile=/etc/examples/linux/systemd/talawa-api.env
+
+ExecStart=${VIRTUAL_ENV}/python3 ${CODEROOT}/main.py ${START}
+ExecStop=${VIRTUAL_ENV}/python3 ${CODEROOT}/main.py ${STOP}
+ExecReload=${VIRTUAL_ENV}/python3 ${CODEROOT}/main.py ${RESTART}
+
+RemainAfterExit=yes
+GuessMainPID=yes
+Type=simple
+RuntimeDirectory=talawa
+
+# Restart policy
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=3
+
+# Security settings
+NoNewPrivileges=yes
+PrivateTmp=yes
+ProtectSystem=full
+ProtectHome=read-only
+
+# Resource limits
+LimitNOFILE=65535
+LimitNPROC=4096
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target
diff --git a/examples/linux/systemd/talawa-api.env b/examples/linux/systemd/talawa-api.env
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+CODEROOT=/home/talawa/talawa-api
+TALAWA_API_CONFIGDIR=/etc/talawa
+VIRTUAL_ENV=${CODEROOT}/venv/bin
+PATH=${VIRTUAL_ENV}:${PATH}
+START=--start
+STOP=--stop --force
+RESTART=--restart --force
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