[tor-bugs] #31693 [Applications/GetTor]: Have GetTor start automatically when machine reboots

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#31693: Have GetTor start automatically when machine reboots
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     Reporter:  phw                  |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  defect               |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Very High            |  Milestone:
    Component:  Applications/GetTor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Critical             |   Keywords:
Actual Points:                       |  Parent ID:
       Points:  0.1                  |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:                       |
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 Getulum last rebooted on 2019-09-07 at 20:02:55 UTC. After the machine
 came back online, GetTor didn't start again and it has been offline for
 the last three days. We really need systemd (or whatever) to start the
 service automatically. Let's set this up as a user-level service as
 described here: https://help.torproject.org/tsa/doc/services/

 Here's a possible gettor.service file:
 {{{
 [Unit]
 Description=GetTor distributes links to Tor Browser over email.
 Wants=network-online.target
 After=network-online.target

 [Service]
 Type=simple
 ExecStart=/home/gettor/gettor/bin/gettor_service start

 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target
 }}}

 I believe that we still need a sysadmin to run `loginctl enable-linger
 gettor` to enable lingering services for the gettor user: see the section
 "sysadmin stuff" in https://help.torproject.org/tsa/doc/services/

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