atlasVPN on slackware

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Hello everyone,

I’m crossasking from linuxquestions, I hope it’s ok.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/trying-to-use-atlas-vpn-on-slackware-4175723037/

I’m trying to make atlasvpn work on Slackware, I’m on slackware64-current, and I was gifted a 3year subscription to atlasvpn. It’s advertised as working on linux, but of course they only provide .deb packages.

after exploding the package there’s only 2 executables, a client and a daemon, and a couple of systemd files, a .service and a .socket

What I can’t understand is how to attach the socket to the daemon, when I run the daemon it exits complaining that there are no sockets available. Here’s the output:

2023-03-17T09:41:24.147+0100    FATAL   unexpected number of active sockets     {"sockets": 0}

Do you guys have any idea? I’ve never worked with systemd, so I don’t know how to “translate” it to Slackware.

The only thing that came to mind is to execute the daemon with inetd, but I don’t really know how to set it up.

Any kind of suggestion is really appreciated.

Thanks a lot in advance

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Is there another way you can use this without the app? I use Mullvard with Wireguard. Mullvard offers conf files for their servers. I place these files in /etc/wireguard. I then put a line like this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

wg-quick up /etc/wireguard/country-city.conf

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I don’t think there’s a way without their app, it’s needed to connect to their servers and they don’t offer configurations for devices not supported by their app.

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I got the Mullvad app to work on Slackware. Was pretty happy with myself there but it was doing some crazy logging stuff and making a mess of my temp dir so I removed it but the deb package app will work. Wireguard is good enough though, I just like the cool app they have created.

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I’ve tried -h and --help to no avail, the daemon doesn’t seem to have command line parameters available.

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My intention, when I have time, is write a script using the ubiquitous dialog as a means to test the connections and quickly change between location conf files… yet another thing to add to my to do list*

* I also really want to work on soma so it can stream youtube live stream channels like LofiGirl and add more functionality like notification and a few other things but work does insist that I turn up and do the things that they want

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Agreed. These damn companies and their expectations of their employees. Could live without them, if only we didn’t live in society.

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atlasvpnd.service

[Unit]
Description=AtlasVPN Daemon
Requires=atlasvpnd.socket
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/atlasvpnd
NonBlocking=true
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=5
User=root

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

atlasvpnd.socket

[Unit]
Description=AtlasVPN Daemon Socket
PartOf=atlasvpnd.service

[Socket]
ListenStream=127.0.0.1:8076
NoDelay=true
SocketUser=root

[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target

I hope reddit doesn’t mess up the paste

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I don’t have that command, what package is it from?

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nevermind, I found the source code and built it, but when I run atlasvpnd in another terminal, it still exits complaining that there’s no socket for it.

I’ve also tried to run it as

socket -sl 8076 -p atlasvpnd

but it simply stays there without doing nothing and the client doesn’t do anything either.

I’m kind of lost at the moment.