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Odoo 12 Development Essentials

You're reading from   Odoo 12 Development Essentials Fast-track your Odoo development skills to build powerful business applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532470
Length 404 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Quick Start Using the Developer Mode FREE CHAPTER 2. Preparing the Development Environment 3. Your First Odoo Application 4. Extending Modules 5. Import, Export, and Module Data 6. Models – Structuring the Application Data 7. Recordsets – Working with Model Data 8. Business Logic – Supporting Business Processes 9. External API – Integrating with Other Systems 10. Backend Views – Designing the User Interface 11. Kanban Views and Client-Side QWeb 12. Reports and Server-Side QWeb 13. Creating Website Frontend Features 14. Deploying and Maintaining Production Instances 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up Odoo as a system service

Now we need to set up Odoo as a system service and have it started automatically when the system boots.

In Ubuntu or Debian, the init system is responsible for starting services. Historically, Debian (and derived operating systems) has used sysvinit, and Ubuntu has used a compatible system called Upstart. Recently, however, this has changed, and the init system used in both the latest Debian and Ubuntu editions is systemd.

This means that there are now two different ways to install a system service, and you need to pick the correct one depending on the version of your operating system.

On Ubuntu 16.04 and later, you should be using systemd. However, older versions are still used in many cloud providers, so there is a good chance that you might need to use it.

To check whether systemd is used in your system, try the following command...

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