HowTo: Autostart Hamachi at Boot

[wyth]

I've seen a few requests for this info, and I've looked for it myself. Many people use the hamachi vpn client. In windows, you can set it to start on boot. That was once a little trickier in linux, but no longer. This page at the NeoHide site worked for me on Feisty Fawn (and I posted about it on a thread here). I'm not sure if the directions originated at NeoHide or someplace else, because I've found them in a few place.

But anyway, here are the directions:

1. Create the start-up script for hamachi, as shown below. Remember to change the user name "your name" (line 5) to your system user name in Ubuntu (or your linux distribution). Call the script "hamachi."
   #!/bin/bash
   ###################################
   ### Start-up script for Hamachi ###
   ###################################
   USER=your name
   case "$1" in
   start)
   /sbin/tuncfg
   /bin/su - $USER -c "hamachi start"
   ;;
   stop)
   /bin/su - $USER -c "hamachi stop"
   ;;
   restart|force-reload)
   /bin/su - $USER -c "hamachi start"
   /bin/su - $USER -c "hamachi stop"
   ;;
   *)
   exit 1
   ;;
   esac
   exit 0
2. Make the script executable:
   chmod +x hamachi
3. Move the script to /etc/init.d/ directory:
   sudo mv hamachi /etc/init.d
4. Finally, link the script to the appropriate run-level for booting up the system:
   sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/hamachi /etc/rc2.d/S99hamachi
   sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/hamachi /etc/rc2.d/K99hamachi
   It seems 2 is the default level for Debian and Ubuntu. In most other distribution, it is 5.
5. Finally, reboot your system and Hamachi will be automatically loaded and connected to the server.

[felker2]

Step 5 says "reboot your system". I'm sure that works, what maybe this is more elegant:

sudo /etc/init.d/hamachi start

HTH

[wyth]

That is more elegant.

[rautamiekka]

Nice tut', but does it work for all defaultly ? If not, please find a way to make it so.

[wyth]

Nice tut', but does it work for all defaultly ? If not, please find a way to make it so.

Yeah, we'll get right on that boss. By the way, can I have next Thursday off?

[rautamiekka]

Yeah, we'll get right on that boss. By the way, can I have next Thursday off?

Thanks for the respect, but you still ask wrong person

[skarootz]

Ok, I don't know if it should be here... However if you want to do this in centos 5 you can use rc3.d runlevel folder.

It worked for me.

Bye

[binbash]

Works like a charm, thanks

[Quazza]

Hi,
Linux newbie alert

I have Hamachi installed on Mythbuntu 8.10 Intrepid and its working fine but I cannot get it to start with the script it will only start with

sudo hamachi -c /etc/hamachi start

When I try to run the script

sudo /etc/init.d/hamachi start

I get the following error

/etc/init.d/hamachi: 1: !/bin/bash: not found
tuncfg: already running
Cannot find configuration directory /home/jase/.hamachi. Have you run 'hamachi-init' ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I am so close to getting this working.

Cheers Quazza

[rautamiekka]

Welcome newcomer

Please copypaste the contents of /etc/init.d/hamachi. That error sounds really fishy.