Running wireproxy with systemd

If you're on a systemd-based distro, you'll most likely want to run Wireproxy as a systemd unit.

The provided systemd unit assumes you have the wireproxy executable installed on /opt/wireproxy/wireproxy and a configuration file stored at /etc/wireproxy.conf. These paths can be customized by editing the unit file.

Setting up the unit

1. Copy the wireproxy.service file from this directory to /etc/systemd/system/, or use the following cURL command to download it:

   sudo curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pufferffish/wireproxy/master/systemd/wireproxy.service > /etc/systemd/system/wireproxy.service

2. If necessary, customize the unit.

   Edit the parts with LoadCredential, ExecStartPre= and ExecStart= to point to the executable and the configuration file. For example, if wireproxy is installed on /usr/bin and the configuration file is located in /opt/myfiles/wireproxy.conf do the following change:

   LoadCredential=conf:/opt/myfiles/wireproxy.conf
   ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/wireproxy -n -c ${CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY}/conf
   ExecStart=/usr/bin/wireproxy -c ${CREDENTIALS_DIRECTORY}/conf

3. Reload systemd and enable the unit.

   sudo systemctl daemon-reload
   sudo systemctl enable --now wireproxy.service

4. Make sure it's working correctly.

   Finally, check out the unit status to confirm wireproxy.service has started without problems. You can use commands like systemctl status wireproxy.service and/or sudo journalctl -u wireproxy.service.

Additional notes

If you want to disable the extensive logging that's done by Wireproxy, simply add -s parameter to ExecStart=. This will enable the silent mode that was implemented with pull/67.