Osprey Service

Provides functions for the cross-platform Osprey GUI that can't be run directly on client computers, usually due to unsupported operating systems.

Installation

Dependencies

Osprey Service needs a Java runtime (v8+) and a fortran runtime.

To install on Ubuntu (or other Debian-based linux):

sudo apt install openjdk-11-jre-headless, libgfortran-7-dev

Deploy application files

Choose a path to deploy the files. Let's refer to that path as $DIR. Then extract the distribution archive file into $DIR.

Then make sure the logs directory is writeable by the www-data user:

cd $DIR
mkdir logs
sudo chown www-data:www-data logs

Create a service on systemd

cd /etc/systemd/system
sudo vim osprey.service

Add this text to the file:

[Unit]
Description=Service for Osprey GUI
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
RestartSec=1
User=www-data
WorkingDirectory=$DIR
ExecStart=$DIR/bin/osprey-service

[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target

Don't forget to replace $DIR in this file with the path you chose.

Then start the service:

sudo systemctl start osprey

Then configure the service to start a boot

sudo systemctl enable osprey

If you change the service file, get systemd to reload it:

sudo systemctl daemon-reload