Swarm (Bee)

This package provides Bee, a Swarm client implemented in Go, packaged for Ethereum on ARM.

Services

This package installs a single systemd service. The service is disabled by default.

  • bee.service

To enable the service, run:

sudo systemctl enable –now bee.service

Configuration

Configuration arguments are defined in the environment file and YAML configuration located in /etc/.

  • /etc/default/bee: Environment variables for the service.

  • /etc/bee/bee.yaml: Main configuration file for the Bee node.

You can edit this file to customize the generic arguments passed to the Bee binary.

Data Directories

By default, this package stores data in the ethereum user’s home directory:

  • /home/ethereum/.bee

User and Group

The service runs as the ethereum user and group.

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