Command as a daemon

[Cadish]

Hi,

I'm trying to run Cloudflared as a service.
Via the following command (as root), I'm able to setup an Argo Tunnel:

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cloudflared tunnel run

I want to set this as a daemon, so I've created the following scripts:

/etc/rc.d/argotunnel (with chmod +x)

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#!/bin/sh

. /etc/rc.subr

name="argotunnel"
rcvar="argotunnel_enable"
argotunnel_user="root"
argotunnel_command="cloudflared tunnel --config /root/.cloudflared/config.yml run"
pidfile="/var/run/${name}.pid"
command="/usr/sbin/daemon"
command_args="-P ${pidfile} -r -f ${argotunnel_command}"

load_rc_config $name
: ${argotunnel_enable:=no}

run_rc_command "$1"

I've added this to my /etc/rc.conf:

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argotunnel_enable='YES'

Via the following command, I start the service:

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service argotunnel start

I can validate that the service has started:

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ps aux
root    45253   0.0  0.0 1066812    2508  -  Ss   16:03       0:00.00 daemon: cloudflared[62627] (daemon)


But apparently, nothing happens. The tunnel is not started as if I would start the tunnel myself manually.

Any idea what's wrong?

Thanks
Cadish

[9axqe]

Did you find a solution for this?

[Cadish]

Hi 9axqe,

I've setup cloudflared on a Proxmox server instead, but I've written down for myself what my solution back then was. I'm sure there's a better way to do it now.

These are the steps I did back then to enable it as a service:

1. My config is in /root/.cloudflared/config.yml
2. Create this file: /etc/rc.d/argotunnel

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#!/bin/sh

. /etc/rc.subr

name="argotunnel"
rcvar="argotunnel_enable"
argotunnel_flags="tunnel --config /root/.cloudflared/config.yml"
command_args="run"

command="/usr/local/bin/cloudflared"

load_rc_config $name
run_rc_command "$1"

3. chmod +x /etc/rc.d/argotunnel
4. Add to /etc/rc.conf:

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argotunnel_enable='YES'
5. Create this script: /root/.cloudflared/automatic_restart.sh

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#!/bin/bash
SERVICE="cloudflared"
if pgrep -x "$SERVICE" >/dev/null
then
    echo "$SERVICE is running"
else
    echo "$SERVICE stopped"
    /usr/sbin/daemon /etc/rc.d/argotunnel start
fi
6. Create a cron action: /usr/local/opnsense/service/conf/actions.d/actions_argotunnel.conf

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[start]
command:/bin/sh /root/.cloudflared/automatic_restart.sh
parametes:
type:script
message:starting cloudflared if necessary
description:Check and restart cloudflared
7. Restart cron services

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service configd restart

8. Create a cron in the OPNsense UI with "Check and restart cloudflared" as command