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Running WebTunnelAgent as User with systemd
Günter Obiltschnig edited this page Jul 19, 2023 · 1 revision
It's possible to run WebTunnelAgent as a normal user as a systemd service, without requiring sudo privileges. The following instructions are for an Ubuntu 22.04 system, but should work on other systemd-based distributions.
mkdir -p bin etc var/log curl https://macchina.io/downloads/RemoteManager/SDK/ubuntu/22.04/x86_64/WebTunnelAgent.gz >bin/WebTunnelAgent.gz gunzip bin/WebTunnelAgent.gz chmod +x bin/WebTunnelAgent Enable logging to file in the configuration file:
logging.loggers.root.channel = file logging.channels.file.class = FileChannel logging.channels.file.pattern = %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%i [%p] %s<%I>: %t logging.channels.file.path = ${system.homeDir}var/log/${application.baseName}.log logging.channels.file.rotation = 100K logging.channels.file.archive = number logging.channels.file.purgeCount = 3 [Unit] Description=WebTunnelAgent After=syslog.target network.target StartLimitIntervalSec=0 [Service] Type=simple Restart=always RestartSec=5 ExecStart=/home/user/bin/WebTunnelAgent --config=/home/user/etc/WebTunnelAgent.properties [Install] WantedBy=default.target Note: replace /home/user with your home directory.
systemctl --user daemon-reload Without this, the service will only run while the user is logged in, which is not what we want.
loginctl enable-linger $LOGNAME systemctl --user enable --now WebTunnelAgent.service