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SYSTEMD-SOCKET-PROXYD(8) systemd-socket-proxyd SYSTEMD-SOCKET-PROXYD(8)
systemd-socket-proxyd - Bidirectionally proxy local sockets to another (possibly remote) socket
systemd-socket-proxyd [OPTIONS...] HOST:PORT systemd-socket-proxyd [OPTIONS...] UNIX-DOMAIN-SOCKET-PATH
systemd-socket-proxyd is a generic socket-activated network socket forwarder proxy daemon for IPv4, IPv6 and UNIX stream sockets. It may be used to bi-directionally forward traffic from a local listening socket to a local or remote destination socket. One use of this tool is to provide socket activation support for services that do not natively support socket activation. On behalf of the service to activate, the proxy inherits the socket from systemd, accepts each client connection, opens a connection to a configured server for each client, and then bidirectionally forwards data between the two. This utility's behavior is similar to socat(1). The main differences for systemd-socket-proxyd are support for socket activation with "Accept=no" and an event-driven design that scales better with the number of connections. Note that systemd-socket-proxyd will not forward socket side channel information, i.e. will not forward SCM_RIGHTS, SCM_CREDENTIALS, SCM_SECURITY, SO_PEERCRED, SO_PEERPIDFD, SO_PEERSEC, SO_PEERGROUPS and similar.
The following options are understood: -h, --help Print a short help text and exit. --version Print a short version string and exit. --connections-max=, -c Sets the maximum number of simultaneous connections, defaults to 256. If the limit of concurrent connections is reached further connections will be refused. Added in version 233. --exit-idle-time= Sets the time before exiting when there are no connections, defaults to infinity. Takes a unit-less value in seconds, or a time span value such as "5min 20s". Added in version 246.
On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
Simple Example Use two services with a dependency and no namespace isolation. Example 1. proxy-to-nginx.socket [Socket] ListenStream=80 [Install] WantedBy=sockets.target Example 2. proxy-to-nginx.service [Unit] Requires=nginx.service After=nginx.service Requires=proxy-to-nginx.socket After=proxy-to-nginx.socket [Service] Type=notify ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-socket-proxyd /run/nginx/socket PrivateTmp=yes PrivateNetwork=yes Example 3. nginx.conf [...] server { listen unix:/run/nginx/socket; [...] Example 4. Enabling the proxy # systemctl enable --now proxy-to-nginx.socket $ curl http://localhost:80/ If nginx.service has StopWhenUnneeded= set, then passing --exit-idle-time= to systemd-socket-proxyd allows both services to stop during idle periods. Namespace Example Similar as above, but runs the socket proxy and the main service in the same private namespace, assuming that nginx.service has PrivateTmp= and PrivateNetwork= set, too. Example 5. proxy-to-nginx.socket [Socket] ListenStream=80 [Install] WantedBy=sockets.target Example 6. proxy-to-nginx.service [Unit] Requires=nginx.service After=nginx.service Requires=proxy-to-nginx.socket After=proxy-to-nginx.socket JoinsNamespaceOf=nginx.service [Service] Type=notify ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-socket-proxyd 127.0.0.1:8080 PrivateTmp=yes PrivateNetwork=yes Example 7. nginx.conf [...] server { listen 8080; [...] Example 8. Enabling the proxy # systemctl enable --now proxy-to-nginx.socket $ curl http://localhost:80/
systemd(1), systemd.socket(5), systemd.service(5), systemctl(1), socat(1), nginx(1), curl(1)
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