Arch Linux

Here's a patch that automates a few more of the steps for users to get the daemon running:

* it creates the bitcoin user/group, with home directory /var/lib/bitcoin
* it installs the systemd service file from the Wiki
* it installs the config file in /etc/bitcoin/ and symlinks from .bitcoin

I picked uid=gid=197 (not taken yet per https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database ). If you accept my patch, we need to add a line to that wiki page and remove the FIXME line in the PKGBUILD.


commit 98b08d1789e2f3d5dbd0b4a4c655e086557aecda
Author: Johannes Ernst <jernst@indiecomputing.com>
Date: Fri May 15 21:03:58 2015 +0000

Create bitcoin user/group, add system service file, conf file in /etc

diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index ece1f57..17892e7 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -1,15 +1,19 @@
# $Id$
# Maintainer: Timothy Redaelli <timothy.redaelli@gmail.com>
# Contributor: shahid <helllamer@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Johannes Ernst <johannes.ernst@gmail.com>
+
+# FIXME: claim uid=gid=197 on https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:UID_/_GID_Database

pkgbase=bitcoin
pkgname=('bitcoin-daemon' 'bitcoin-cli' 'bitcoin-qt')
pkgver=0.10.1
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.bitcoin.org/"
makedepends=('boost' 'automoc4' 'qrencode' 'miniupnpc' 'protobuf')
license=('MIT')
+backup=('/etc/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf')
source=(http://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-$pkgver/bitcoin-$pkgver.tar.gz
https://raw.github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/v$pkgver/contrib/debian/bitcoin-qt.desktop
https://raw.github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/v$pkgver/share/pixmaps/bitcoin128.png
@@ -58,9 +62,12 @@ package_bitcoin-qt() {
package_bitcoin-daemon() {
pkgdesc="Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network based digital currency - daemon"
depends=(boost-libs miniupnpc openssl)
+ install=bitcoin-daemon.install

cd "$pkgbase-$pkgver"
install -Dm755 src/bitcoind "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/bitcoind
+ mkdir -p -m750 "$pkgdir/var/lib/bitcoin/.bitcoin"
+ chown 197:197 "$pkgdir/var/lib/bitcoin/.bitcoin"
install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/bitcoin.conf \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/examples/bitcoin.conf"
install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/bitcoind.1 \
@@ -68,6 +75,12 @@ package_bitcoin-daemon() {
install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/bitcoin.conf.5 \
"$pkgdir"/usr/share/man/man5/bitcoin.conf.5
install -Dm644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING"
+ install -Dm644 "$startdir"/bitcoind.service \
+ "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system/bitcoind.service
+ mkdir -p -m755 "$pkgdir/etc/bitcoin/"
+ install -m640 "$srcdir"/bitcoin.conf \
+ "$pkgdir/etc/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"
+ ln -s /etc/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf "$pkgdir/var/lib/bitcoin/.bitcoin/bitcoin.conf"
}

package_bitcoin-cli() {
diff --git a/bitcoin-daemon.install b/bitcoin-daemon.install
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1092524
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitcoin-daemon.install
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+post_install() {
+ getent group bitcoin &>/dev/null || groupadd -r -g 197 bitcoin >/dev/null
+ getent passwd bitcoin &>/dev/null || useradd -r -u 197 -g bitcoin -d /var/lib/bitcoin -s /bin/false -c bitcoin bitcoin >/dev/null
+ chown -R bitcoin:bitcoin /var/lib/bitcoin
+ echo Before starting bitcoind.service, you must edit /etc/bitcoin/bitcoin.conf
+ echo and set 'rpcuser' and a hard-to-guess 'rpcpassword'.
+ true
+}
+
+post_remove() {
+ getent passwd bitcoin &>/dev/null && userdel bitcoin >/dev/null
+ getent group bitcoin &>/dev/null && groupdel bitcoin >/dev/null
+ true
+}
+
diff --git a/bitcoind.service b/bitcoind.service
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92701e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bitcoind.service
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Bitcoin daemon service
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+User=bitcoin
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/bitcoind
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target