To install Greenstone3 as a service, run: ./SUDO-INSTALL-SERVICE.sh [service-user] service-name The service-user parameter is optional. It defaults to: www-data Greenstone3 is typically installed as the service name: greenstone3 Change the service name if you want to have more than one greenstone service running (e.g. greenstone3-foo, greenstone3-bar) This script checks a few things first, and if all is well, goes ahead and creates the .service file (in this folder), and then installs it into /etc/systemd/system It finishes by printing out some extra details, such as how to use the service with 'systemctl', including how to add it in to the boot-up sequence.