= Deluge Service =

== What is a service? ==

Operating systems use services to start applications on system boot, run then in the background and can automatically restart if they crash.

The Deluge daemon (deluged) and Deluge Web-UI (deluge-web) can both be run as services.

== Linux Service Guides ==

=== systemd ===

[wiki:UserGuide/Service/systemd]

For most modern Linux distributions; Arch, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian (Jessie). See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Adoption wikipedia] for more details on systemd adoption.

=== Upstart ===

[wiki:UserGuide/Service/Upstart]

This is for Ubuntu distributions '''11.04''' (Natty) through to '''14.10''' (Utopic). 

=== init.d ===

[wiki:UserGuide/Service/DebianUbuntuInitd]

For older Ubuntu and Debian distributions.

== Microsoft Windows ==

[wiki:UserGuide/Service/MS_Windows]