The PIVX Core Wallet can be setup as a service on Linux to start automatically when the server starts.

1. Create the service definition file as /lib/systemd/system/pivxd.service

2. Put the following content in the file. Make sure you customize the user (set to pivx-user in the example below, and the path to the pivxd binary)

   # It is not recommended to modify this file in-place, because it will
   # be overwritten during package upgrades. If you want to add further
   # options or overwrite existing ones then use
   # $ systemctl edit pivxd.service
   # See "man systemd.service" for details.
   #
   # Note that almost all daemon options could be specified in
   # /home/pivx-user/.pivx/pivx.conf
   #
   [Unit]
   Description=PIVX daemon
   After=network.target
   Documentation=man:pivxd(1)
   #
   [Service]
   ExecStart=/home/pivx-user/pivx-core/bin/pivxd -daemon -datadir=/home/pivx-user/.pivx -conf=/home/pivx-user/.pivx/pivx.conf -pid=/run/pivxd/pivxd.pid
   # Creates /run/pivxd owned by pivx-user
   RuntimeDirectory=pivxd
   User=pivx-user
   Type=forking
   PIDFile=/run/pivxd/pivxd.pid
   Restart=on-failure
   #
   # Hardening measures
   ####################
   #
   # Provide a private /tmp and /var/tmp.
   PrivateTmp=true
   #
   # Mount /usr, /boot/ and /etc read-only for the process.
   ProtectSystem=full
   #
   # Disallow the process and all of its children to gain
   # new privileges through execve().
   NoNewPrivileges=true
   #
   # Use a new /dev namespace only populated with API pseudo devices
   # such as /dev/null, /dev/zero and /dev/random.
   PrivateDevices=true
   #
   # Deny the creation of writable and executable memory mappings.
   MemoryDenyWriteExecute=true
   #
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target

3. Update systemd configuration:

   sudo systemctl daemon-reload

4. Start the service

   sudo systemctl start pivxd

5. You can check the status with:

   sudo systemctl status pivxd

6. If successful enable for system startup:

   sudo systemctl enable pivxd