Starting Watcher automatically

Autostart on the Mac

As a local user

Create a file called net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist in your ~/Library/LaunchAgents directory with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>watcher</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/bin/python</string>
        <string>watcher.py</string>
        <string>--daemon</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/opt/watcher</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Change line 21 to the absolute path of your watcher folder Make sure your watcher folder matches your user permissions (otherwise the launchd service might fail to start):

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /opt/watcher (change this path to the path of your watcher folder from above)

In Terminal:

To enable the daemon: launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist

To disable the daemon: launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist

Enjoy! This will automatically start watcher when you login

As an admin user

Create a file called net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist in your /Library/LaunchAgents directory with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <dict>
        <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
        <false/>
    </dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>watcher</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/bin/python</string>
        <string>watcher.py</string>
        <string>--daemon</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/opt/watcher</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Change line 21 to the absolute path of your watcher folder In Terminal:

To enable the daemon: sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist

To disable the daemon: sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchAgents/net.nosmokingbandit.watcher.plist

Enjoy! This will automatically start watcher when your machine boots

Autostart with systemctl

You will need to create the watcher3 folder, watcher.pid, db folder, logs folder, and plugins folders under the user you will start the service under in the .config folder.

Assuming the Watcher3 install is in /opt/Watcher3

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/watcher\@.service

[Unit]
Description=Watcher3
After=network.target

[Service]
User=%I
Group=%I
Type=forking

ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /opt/Watcher3/watcher.py --daemon --conf /home/%I/.config/watcher3/watcher.cfg --db /home/%I/.config/watcher3/db/database.sqlite --log /home/%I/.config/watcher3/logs/ --plugins /home/%I/.config/watcher3/plugins/ --pid /home/%I/.config/watcher3/watcher.pid
Restart=on-failure
TimeoutStopSec=300

PIDFile=/home/%I/.config/watcher3/watcher.pid

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

To Start

Change #USER# with the user you want the run the service as

sudo systemctl daemon-reload

sudo systemctl enable watcher@#USER#

sudo systemctl start watcher@#USER#