3. Running AmritaVPN

3.1 Running

After proper installation amvpn can be run either interactively from a terminal, as a background process (daemon) from a terminal, or as a system service that can be automatically started on boot up.

For help:

amvpn -h or amvpn --help

For interactive startup from a terminal:

amvpn or amvpn --log-level debug. Use log-level debug for detailed messages. In interactive mode all messages will be logged in the console.

For starting as background (daemon) process from a terminal:

amvpn -d. In background (daemon) mode all messages will be logged to system log. Usually this goes to /var/log/messages file. To see amvpn messages: cat /var/log/messages |grep "amvpn". If amvpn is started as a daemon the process will continue to run even if terminal is closed (use killall -9 amvpn to kill the process).

For using amvpn as system service:

'service amvpn start' for starting. 'service amvpn stop' for stopping. 'service amvpn status' for checking status. To automatically start amvpn service in desired run-levels use chkconfig or some similar tool.

3.2 System requirements

Following are the system requirements for AmritaVPN:

• GNU/Linux with Kernel 2.4.x
• openssl library and command-line tool.(any recent version should do)
• GCC compiler to build from source.