Hummingbird boot script

[mith_y2k 6]

Has anyone written a script to automatically start Hummingbird at boot? Ideally for a Raspberry Pi.

[eburom 16]

Hi, if you use systemd you can set up a unit to do the job:

I will assume you have a ovpn file with which you already run hummingbird:

/path_to_your_file/hummingbird_boot.ovpn

And hummingbird executable at a known place. If installed it can be checked running:

$ which hummingbird
/usr/bin/hummingbird

 I will assume this location.

The systemd unit is nothing but a text file with some directives. You can create it as root with your preferred editor, place it in /etc/systemd/system and name it as you wish.
in this case: /etc/systemd/system/airvpn.service (based on a suggestion in https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hummingbird-bin/ )

[Unit]
Description = AirVPN Client (hummingbird)
Wants = network-online.target
After = network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart = /usr/bin/hummingbird /path_to_your_file/hummingbird_boot.ovpn
Restart = always

[Install]
WantedBy = multi-user.target

Note: make sure it is owned by root, in case you edited as your user and then sudo copied it.

At this point you are all set, now you can use it as any other service:

Make it run in that moment:

$ sudo systemctl start airvpn

Set it to start at every boot:

$ sudo systemctl enable airvpn

Restart while running:

$ sudo systemctl restart airvpn

Stop it:

$ sudo systemctl stop airvpn

Unset it to boot every time:

$ sudo systemctl disable airvpn

Check it's status:

$ sudo systemctl status airvpn

Access its logs:

$ journalctl -u airvpn

I think those are the more used ones.
Haven't tried it in a raspberry but it works in some other systems.



 

[pjnsmb 13]

@eburom

thanks for that it's working for me on debian sid.

[mith_y2k 6]

Thanks @eburom this is very well explained. I’ll give it a shot tonight.

[mith_y2k 6]

Worked perfectly!