Maltrail Setup and Systemd Integration

Having run this app for a while now I figured this was long overdue...tested on Ubuntu 14-16:


git clone https://github.com/stamparm/maltrail.git

sudo mv maltrail /opt/

add to /etc/passwd:
maltrail:x:10000:10000::/opt/maltrail:/bin/false

add to /etc/group:
maltrail:x:10000:maltrail

edit your /opt/maltrail/maltrail.conf (interface, creds, etc...)

sudo chown -R maltrail:maltrail /opt/maltrail

create the two files below:

/lib/systemd/system/maltrail-server.service:

[Unit]
Description=Maltrail server

[Service]
User=maltrail
Group=maltrail
WorkingDirectory=/opt/maltrail
ExecStart=/usr/bin/nohup /usr/bin/python /opt/maltrail/server.py & disowm


[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


/lib/systemd/system/maltrail-sensor.service:

[Unit]
Description=Maltrail sensor

[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/opt/maltrail
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python /opt/maltrail/sensor.py


[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target


then run:
sudo systemctl enable maltrail-server
sudo systemctl enable maltrail-sensor


lastly run:
sudo systemctl start maltrail-server
sudo systemctl start maltrail-sensor


updating:
sudo systemctl stop maltrail-server
sudo systemctl stop maltrail-sensor
cd /opt/maltrail
sudo cp maltrail.conf maltrail.conf.mine
sudo rm maltrail.conf
sudo git pull

copy local changes from maltrail.conf.mine to the new maltrail.conf

sudo chown -R maltrail:maltrail /opt/maltrail
sudo systemctl start maltrail-server

sudo systemctl start maltrail-sensor