Back Channel client

Installation

Install/Upgrade package

python3 -m pip install --upgrade back-channel-client --user

Create service

echo "[Unit]
Description=back-channel-client
After=multi-user.target
Conflicts=getty@tty1.service
[Service]
User=${USER}
Type=simple
Environment="LC_ALL=C.UTF-8"
Environment="LANG=C.UTF-8"
ExecStart=${HOME}/.local/bin/back-channel-client
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=3
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target" | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/back-channel-client.service

sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable back-channel-client.service
sudo systemctl start back-channel-client.service

Configuration

Config file path: ~/.config/back_channel_client/config.ini

This file automatically generated when the service starts. See the example below.

[connection]
server_host = http://localhost
ssh_username = root
ssh_port = 22
period_time_sec = 30
client_name = test_client
disk_path = /media/HDD

Check logs

journalctl -fu back-channel-client