Run as a service

This guide applies to systems using systemd. It covers starting dae as a service and enabling it at boot.

Prerequisites

Optional Geo Data Files

For more convenient traffic split, dae relies on the following data sources, geoip.dat and geosite.dat.

sudo

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/share/dae/
pushd /usr/local/share/dae/
sudo curl -L -o geoip.dat https://github.com/v2fly/geoip/releases/latest/download/geoip.dat
sudo curl -L -o geosite.dat https://github.com/v2fly/domain-list-community/releases/latest/download/dlc.dat
popd

root

mkdir -p /usr/local/share/dae/
pushd /usr/local/share/dae/
curl -L -o geoip.dat https://github.com/v2fly/geoip/releases/latest/download/geoip.dat
curl -L -o geosite.dat https://github.com/v2fly/domain-list-community/releases/latest/download/dlc.dat
popd

Configuration File

Note: The config file is recommended to save under /etc/dae

Download the sample config file:

sudo

sudo mkdir -p /etc/dae
sudo curl -L -o /etc/dae/config.dae https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/raw/main/example.dae
sudo chmod 600 /etc/dae/config.dae

root

mkdir -p /etc/dae
curl -L -o /etc/dae/config.dae https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/raw/main/example.dae
chmod 600 /etc/dae/config.dae

Before starting the service, edit /etc/dae/config.dae to set the network interfaces and subscription or node values. See Minimal configuration.

Download pre-compiled binaries

Releases are available in https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/releases

Note: If you would like to get a taste of new features, there are nightly (latest) builds available. Most of the time, newly proposed changes will be included in PRs and will be exported as cross-platform executable binaries in builds (GitHub Action Workflow Build). Noted that newly introduced features are sometimes buggy, do it at your own risk. However, we still highly encourage you to check out our latest builds as it may help us further analyze features stability and resolve potential bugs accordingly.

Nightly builds are available in https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/actions/workflows/build-nightly.yml

sudo

sudo chmod +x ./dae
sudo install -Dm755 dae /usr/bin/

root

chmod +x ./dae
install -Dm755 dae /usr/bin/

Check the binary

# helper
dae --help
# check version
dae version

Setup

sudo

# download the sample systemd.service
sudo curl -L -o /etc/systemd/system/dae.service https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/raw/main/install/dae.service

root

# download the sample systemd.service
curl -L -o /etc/systemd/system/dae.service https://github.com/daeuniverse/dae/raw/main/install/dae.service

Start and enable the service

sudo

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable dae --now
sudo systemctl status dae

root

systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl enable dae --now
systemctl status dae

Check System Logs

sudo

sudo journalctl -xefu dae

root

journalctl -xefu dae

After completing Minimal configuration, see Service management to start, enable, reload or restart dae.

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