I have an Amazon ec2 instance running Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03. I would like to create a startup service but I can't use systemctl as I'm not on Amazon Linux 2.
The service is a Python script that I would like to run at startup and be able to start/stop. How would I do this?
Amazon Linux 1 is using sysvinit system, unlike systemd in Amazon Linux 2. One way of setting it up to manage your service is shown here.
However, Amazon Linux 1 has only few months left of its lifetime:
Thus if you can, please consider using Amazon Linux 2. Sooner or later you will have to switch to AL2 anyway for security reasons, so may try doing this now.
