# Running handin server with systemd?

**URL:** <https://racket.discourse.group/t/running-handin-server-with-systemd/3205>\
**Category:** Questions & Answers\
**Created:** [October 7, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/running-handin-server-with-systemd/3205 "2024-10-07T20:56:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbclements](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/jbclements/32/11_2.png) [@jbclements](https://racket.discourse.group/u/jbclements)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 8:56pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/running-handin-server-with-systemd/3205/1 "2024-10-07T20:56:09Z")

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I've been running a handin server (that is, using the `handin` pkg) for ... uh .. 20 years? I'm still using Daniel J. Bernstein's daemontools to keep it runnning, but a conversation with @SamPhillips at 14th RacketCon convinced me that I should probably switch to using systemd; it's probably more ... reliable? declarative? modern? Anyhow, if anyone has configuration files to use the handin server with systemd, I'd love to see them.

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**Author:** ![hendrikboom3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/racket.discourse.group/hendrikboom3/32/2748_2.png) [@hendrikboom3](https://racket.discourse.group/u/hendrikboom3)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/running-handin-server-with-systemd/3205/2 "2024-10-07T22:37:24Z")

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I see no reason whatsoever to adapt your process to the complexity of systemd.  
Especially not if the elegantly simple daemontools work for you.

-- hendrik