Introduction and Summary:
After making and installing Shadowsocks from source code, you may want to create a service that starts and stops with the server and behaves like a Daemon. The following instructions are one way that this can be accomplished. (Note: The installation via APT will create a service during the installation process and there is no need to create this service manually)UPDATED 2018 March to use echo commands to manually enter the service text and also the service commands were edited to more closely follow the defaults for debian on shadowsocks on github.
Prerequisites:
- Linux Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS Server
- Console Access
- Root level permissions
- The following Ubuntu packages (some might be obsolete or unnecessary, send me a message if you discover an improvement): vim
Instructions:
1. Create a file called ss-server.service under /usr/lib/systemd/system/ and edit it with vim.sudo mkdir /usr/lib/systemd/system && sudo vim /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
2. Enter the following text into the new file using a series of echo commands.
echo “[Unit]” > /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “Description=Shadowsocks Server Daemon /usr/local/bin/ss-server” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “After=network.target network-online.target” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “[Service]” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “Type=simple” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/ss-server” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “Group=nogroup” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “LimitNOFILE=32768” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “[Install]” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “WantedBy=multi-user.target” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
echo “” >> /usr/lib/systemd/system/shadowsocks.service
3. Enable the service and check its status
sudo systemctl enable shadowsocks && sudo systemctl start shadowsocks && sudo systemctl status shadowsocks
Note: The command to stop the service is: sudo systemctl stop shadowsocks
This can be useful when troubleshooting. You can stop the service and run "ss-server" manually to watch for error messages.
Note: The command to start the service is: sudo systemctl start shadowsocks
Blog Formatting Guide:
- Commands written in Consolas in BLUE are LOCAL Client Shell Commands (I'm running an Ubuntu local client)
- Commands written in Consolas in RED are REMOTE Server Shell Commands (usually in SSH)
- All commands in Courier and BOLD are CUSTOM user variables that your should change for your configuration.
- All text written in Courier and PURPLE are file contents as shown in a text editor.
Helpful References, for Shadowsocks:
Shadowsocks-libev on GithubSimple-obfs on Github
Digital Ocean Forum, starting services for Ubuntu Server
