From 049bb50aaf031a732751c9d3641fceeb1573f025 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JanssenSimon <32472583+JanssenSimon@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2022 21:37:16 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Adds creation of systemd daemon for running script on startup

---
 wimp | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wimp b/wimp
index 24b5b0e..416a922 100755
--- a/wimp
+++ b/wimp
@@ -6,8 +6,24 @@ wimp_create_directories() {
   touch ./includes/before.html; touch ./includes/after.html
 }
 # checks if the watch function is going to be run on startup using systemd
+#TODO bug to fix here with path of script
+#TODO check if file exists before doing this whole thing
+#TODO change this so that it works with multiple directories
 wimp_create_daemon() {
-  echo "TODO create daemon"
+  touch /etc/systemd/system/wimp.service
+  echo "[Unit]
+Description=Run wimp website generator
+
+[Service]
+Type=simple
+RemainAfterExit=yes
+ExecStart=$(pwd)/wimp
+TimeoutStartSec=0
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target" > /etc/systemd/system/wimp.service
+  systemctl daemon-reload
+  systemctl enable wimp.service
 }
 # compiles mardown file in src to html file in public using pandoc
 wimp_compile() {