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2 years ago Ok, creating a new comment just to avoid any confusion now that I have more to go off of. You can probably disregard the majority of my previous questions, except the question of, which of the two files that I modified actually changed the script? or did both modifications work to change it?
The script is running fine however, my system went to sleep(which I know how to prevent for future cases) so I received an error. Here is a log of what happened after I went to sleep:
user@RPI /t/nordvpn-reconnect (main)> nordvpn-reconnector
Initializing NordVPN reconnector with a maximum uptime of 1 hours
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Current uptime is 1 hours 2 minutes 19 seconds, which is greater than 1 hours
Attempting to reconnect.
Connecting to United States #8863 (us8863.nordvpn.com)
\Attempting to kill process 1435 for service nordvpnd
/usr/bin/nordvpn-reconnector: line 117: kill: (1435) - Operation not permitted
Failed to kill service; it may be that the service is running at a higher privilege than this script
Asking nordvpnd-killer.service to take care of this for us.
Whoops! Cannot reach System Daemon.
Whoops! Cannot reach System Daemon.
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
Checking again in 6 minutes
...checking again in 6 minutes written 40 more times
so if the system hadn't of locked automatically, "Asking nordvpnd-killer.service to take care of this for us." would have been performed without a hiccup? and I would have never received "Whoops! Cannot reach System Daemon."? cool.
I'm sorry but what the hell do I do now? I am willing to provide whatever is necessary for you to help me to the best of your abilities. Thank you.
mmnaseri
Just wanted to start off by saying. I love you for creating this. I highly appreciate it. I have a couple questions though, and can't seem to determine the answer on my own. I'm fairly new to linux but have managed to work my way through, so bare with me if I ask questions that may seem like common sense.
So first off I want to describe my intentions, I want it to set the minimum time to 2 hours instead of 4. And I would like to enable notifications (which are supposedly disabled by default). I also intend to install this as a service, which is relevant to one of my questions.
In order to accomplish these two changes regarding the minimum time and notifications, would I modify nordvpn-reconnect.sh in this way so that :
would become ->
or am I meant to just modify the environment variables in nordvpn-reconnector.service? or both?
The reason I am confused by this is because it just doesn't seem like I am supposed to touch the aforementioned nordvpn-reconnect.sh at all. I did end up modifying both instances mentioned and it installed fine, I just want to make sure I am doing this right.
I don't know how to check the status of the script either. I may be mistaken in that you aren't intended to use systemctl to check the status, I probably misread. I did figure out that I could type "nordvpn-reconnector" and it does confirm that I modified the minimum time but like I said, I don't know if my change to nordvpn-reconnect.sh or nordvpn-reconnector.service or both changes resulted in that modification. And on top of thatI don't exactly know what running "nordvpn-reconnector" does, but now that I think of it, that probably is to check the status I am just really uncertain.
Nothing went wrong when I utilized the simple installation command in order to enable it as a daemon as you can see below. Although, it was a bit concerning to see "Uninstalling nordvpn-reconnector" and the lines about removal below it in a command for the installation, but I trust in the creator of the script as I did not create this and that could simply be a typo/something I don't understand.
Two more things as of editing this an hour later. Firstly, I have "fish" installed so I see that when I type "nordvpn", two suggestions pop up for the possible commands. One for "nordvpn-reconnector" like I mentioned before, and "nordvpnd-killer". So, I guess this is the same question that I posed previously, but are both of these manual controls for the script? I was under the impression that once you installed as a daemon, these things were performed automatically. but I guess a reasonable explanation could be that the killer can be run manually through that command like you stated in the documentation:
and the "nordvpn-reconnector" command is just used to check the status? I am just really uncertain, apologies for my lack of knowledge and inability to understand the documentation despite how descriptive it is. I truly can't come up with an explanation for the next bit though:
so does this simply mean to "touch /tmp/nordvpnd-killer.ask"? ok, if it does, cool but I still don't understand what you mean when you say "run the other script as root" what other script? the killer?
and going by my assumption that "If you drop a file at" means to create one through touch, then the creation of "/tmp/nordvpn-reconnect.lock" halts the service until it's deleted. right?
Again, thank you so much for creating this and for hearing me out. I recently got everything set up how I wanted on a raspberry pi, only to realize NordVPN stalled and was impossible to disconnect without restarting the entire device. By sheer luck I stumbled onto your script and am grateful someone went out of their way to provide a solution. Apologies for this scrambled line of questioning, I think once you reply a ton of this will be cleared up because after coming back and reading the documentation again, most of my questions already answered themselves I just want to be certain.