Needs Help With Starting Ngrok In Background Automaticly At Boot

happynew2023year · March 22, 2023 at 2:28 PM

hello everyone, i have raspberry pi 4 with libreElec OS , i have installed ngrok, and i want to run ngrok at startup in background.

howTo do this?

libreelec v19.5 stable

v10.0.4

RPi4.arm

any information missing? let me know

**chewitt** · March 23, 2023 at 5:45 AM

You can add a systemd service file in /storage/.config/system.d to execute commands

**Da Flex** · March 23, 2023 at 5:57 AM

Or create a /storage/.config/autostart.sh script containing the startup command.

**chewitt** · March 23, 2023 at 9:50 AM

ngrok would probably have dependencies on networking so systemd would always be the better approach since you can sequence the start to happen after the network is up/online.

happynew2023year · March 24, 2023 at 9:40 AM

so if i want to add this at startup

./ngrok tcp 22

i would create a file in system.d folder

name it ngrok.service.tunnel

now what do i input in this file? only the command like this?:

./ngrok tcp 22

and keep the rest of the file empty?

or i need more information?

after this i would do a reboot and it would start automaticly at every boot unless i do upgrade/downgrade OS?

thanks you all for helping

**chewitt** · March 25, 2023 at 6:48 AM

Code

[Unit]
Description=ngroc service
After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target time-sync.target
Wants=network-online.target nss-lookup.target time-sync.target

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=/path/to/ngrok tcp 22

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

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^ something like that in /storage/.config/system.d/ngrok.service

Then "systemctl enable /storage/.config/system.d/ngrok.service" and "systemctl start ngrok.service" .. it should then be persistent over restarts and even upgrades (as long as ngrok itself continues to run).

happynew2023year · March 25, 2023 at 8:22 PM

this is my ngrok.service file:

------

[Unit]

Description=ngroc service

After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target time-sync.target

Wants=network-online.target nss-lookup.target time-sync.target

[Service]

Type=oneshot

RemainAfterExit=yes

ExecStart=/storage/ngrok tcp 22

[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

------

Any more info i need to edit?

see image for error:

i got this new folder named multi-user.target.wants containing the link to ngrok.service

i tried running systemctl status ngrok.service but the output was too much for my ssh client on my iphone.

thanks for all help

why image error didnt show earlier:

i think i added attachment from photos and then i choose full image so it appeared in my comment and then i deleted the attachment because i tough the attachment and full image would mean double images..

**Da Flex** · March 25, 2023 at 9:22 PM

Link to error message doesn't work. Please edit your post.

happynew2023year · March 27, 2023 at 10:52 PM

maybe i could use zerotier , any way to install zerotier to my setup?

maybe its an addon?

anyone