**[HOME](Home) > [EN](v2_EN_Home) > [System Service](#)** # SRS Linux Service ![](http://ossrs.net/gif/v1/sls.gif?site=github.com&path=/wiki/v2_EN_LinuxService) [![](https://ossrs.net/wiki/images/wechat-badge4.svg)](Contact#wechat) [![](https://ossrs.net/wiki/images/srs-faq.svg)](https://github.com/ossrs/srs/issues/2716) There are many ways to startup SRS: * Directly run srs at the trunk/objs, and need start again when system restart. * Linux service, the init.d scirpt at `srs/trunk/etc/init.d/srs`, and user can add to linux service when linked to the /etc/init.d/srs then add as service `/sbin/chkconfig --add srs`. The SRS release binary can be downloaded from release site, we can install as system service, see: [Github: release](http://ossrs.net/srs.release) or [Mirror for China: release](http://www.ossrs.net) ## Directly startup SRS We donot need to add to linux service to directly start SRS: ```bash cd srs/trunk && ./etc/init.d/srs start ``` or ```bash cd srs/trunk && ./objs/srs -c conf/srs.conf ``` ## LinuxService Install and startup SRS as linux system service: * Build SRS: the install script will modify the INSTALL ROOT of init.d script. * Link to init.d: link the `trunk/etc/init.d/srs` to `/etc/init.d/srs` * Add to linux service: use /sbin/chkconfig for Centos. <strong>Step1:</strong> Build and Install SRS Intall SRS when build ok: ```bash make && sudo make install ``` the install of make will install srs to the prefix dir, default to `/usr/local/srs`, which is specified by configure, for instance, ```./configure --prefix=`pwd`/_release``` set the install dir to _release of current dir to use `make install` without sudo. <strong>Step2:</strong> Link script to init.d: ```bash sudo ln -sf \ /usr/local/srs/etc/init.d/srs \ /etc/init.d/srs ``` <strong>Step3:</strong>Add as linux service: ```bash #centos 6 sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add srs ``` or ```bash #ubuntu12 sudo update-rc.d srs defaults ``` ## Use init.d script Get the status of SRS: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs status ``` Start SRS: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs start ``` Stop SRS: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs stop ``` Restart SRS: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs restart ``` Reload SRS: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs reload ``` ## Install SRS-API SRS will install api to `/usr/local/srs`, which is specified by configure. The api is the api-server of SRS, which is used for SRS to callback the http api. The http callback need to open the feature `--with-http-callback`, and SRS use python(cherrypy) for server.py, which user can directly run. The api-server tp provide http service, and the pages for demo of SRS including the player, encoder and the meeting demo of SRS. When api-server start, we can access `http://192.168.1.170:8085`, the demo of SRS. See: [Usage: Demo](v2_EN_SampleDemo). <strong>Step1:</strong> Enable the demo feature: ```bash ./configure --with-hls --with-ffmpeg --with-http-callback --with-ffmpeg ``` <strong>Step2:</strong> Install api: ```bash make && sudo make install-api ``` Start api-server: ```bash /usr/local/srs/etc/init.d/srs-api start ``` See: [Usage: Demo](v2_EN_SampleDemo) <strong>Step3:</strong> Link api script: ```bash sudo ln -sf \ /usr/local/srs/etc/init.d/srs-api \ /etc/init.d/srs-api ``` <strong>Step4:</strong> Add to linux service: ```bash #centos 6 sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add srs-api ``` or ```bash #ubuntu12 sudo update-rc.d srs-api defaults ``` <strong>Step5:</strong> Manage the SRS-api service: Get the SRS-api status: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs-api status ``` Start SRS-api: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs-api start ``` Stop SRS-api: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs-api stop ``` Restart SRS-api: ```bash /etc/init.d/srs-api restart ``` Winlin 2014.10