Running Wings as a service

Upstream project

The systemd unit below runs upstream pterodactyl/wings, an independent Go daemon. Evodactyl is the panel that talks to it over JWT; we do not ship Wings.

Create /etc/systemd/system/wings.service:

/etc/systemd/system/wings.service

[Unit]
Description=Pterodactyl Wings Daemon
After=docker.service
Requires=docker.service
PartOf=docker.service

[Service]
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/etc/pterodactyl
LimitNOFILE=4096
PIDFile=/var/run/wings/daemon.pid
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/wings
Restart=on-failure
StartLimitInterval=600

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable and start:

systemctl enable --now wings

Check logs with:

journalctl -u wings -f