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FS#75999 - [cloudflared] Package Is Missing Systemd Service File

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by buzz (steadybright) - Saturday, 24 September 2022, 16:21 GMT
Last edited by Buggy McBugFace (bugbot) - Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:08 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To George Rawlinson (rawlinsong)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description: No systemd service file appears to exist for the cloudflared package

Additional info:
* I migrated from cloudflared-bin to cloudflared today (9/24/22)
* Systemd was not able to start cloudflared following installation
* Systemd service file for cloudflared does not exist
* Copied backup service file from cloudflared-bin package into service folder
* Now able to use systemd to automatically run cloudflared at startup

Request that the cloudflared package be updated to include the systemd service file.
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Closed by  Buggy McBugFace (bugbot)
Saturday, 25 November 2023, 20:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Moved
Additional comments about closing:  https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/p ackaging/packages/cloudflared/issues/1
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Saturday, 24 September 2022, 20:22 GMT
cloudflared embeds its suggested service files and config in the binary to be installed with `cloudflared service install`
Needs some way to have that installed in $pkgdir.
Comment by George Rawlinson (rawlinsong) - Sunday, 25 September 2022, 01:09 GMT
The reason that the files were missing from the package in community is because cloudflared & cloudflared-bin had vastly different configuration file(s) and systemd integration.

I'm looking into adding upstream's recommended configuration to the package in an update soon.
Comment by George Rawlinson (rawlinsong) - Sunday, 25 September 2022, 01:18 GMT
cloudflared can run in a few different modes depending on the sub-command (tunnel or proxy-dns), so I think an acceptable solution would be to have two separate systemd service files:

1. cloudflared@.service (mainly for proxy-dns)
2. cloudflared-tunnel@.service (for tunnel(s))

In both instances, %i would be the name of the configuration file in `ExecStart=/usr/bin/cloudflared --no-autoupdate --config /etc/cloudflared/%i.yml` (add `tunnel run` to end for cloudflared-tunnel@.service)

I'd appreciate some feedback, as no other downstream ships systemd integration. Even cloudflared's own deb/rpm packages only ship the binary.
Comment by buzz (steadybright) - Wednesday, 28 September 2022, 00:51 GMT
Hi George, I opened this request, but I do not consider myself qualified to give you useful feedback. I usually figure out what I need to know in Arch Linux using brute force. I will say that I use cloudflared per your use case #1 above (as a proxy-dns). Also, and I'm not disputing your statement above that "cloudflared-bin and cloudflared had vastly different configuration file(s)," although I was able to get cloudflared working simply by copying a backup of cloudflared-bin's .yml file to the clouflared folder. I don't know if that means anything significant; it just worked for me. Thank you again!
Comment by Stephen Cox (stephencox) - Saturday, 01 October 2022, 00:39 GMT
cloudflared-proxy-dns.service and cloudflared-tunnel.service makes sense for me
Comment by Eli Skeggs (skeggse) - Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 20:08 GMT
As a user of proxy-dns mode, cloudflared-proxy-dns.service and cloudflared-tunnel.service also sound just fine to me! I'd love to see this added. I've updated the wiki in the meantime to explain that this package does not actually ship with a service.

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