update simplexalerts tutorial

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MulliganSecurity 2025-06-11 10:30:46 +02:00
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@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ The release page can be accessed through your web browser or you can download th
Run your client in server mode:
[user@devnode:~]$ simplex-chat -d clientDB -p 1337 -x
[user@devnode:~]$ simplex-chat -d chatDB
No user profiles found, it will be created now.
Please choose your display name.
It will be sent to your contacts when you connect.
@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ This command will:
- create two databases that your client uses for reconnecting to groups and interacting with the simpleX Network
- make sure that simplex routes all traffic through Tor (thanks to the -x argument)
- set this client display name (what you will see in your groups when receiving alerts)
- open a websocket port that the alerter will use on 127.0.0.1:1337
Once you are done, you can Ctrl-c as the DB will be used by the alerter container.
@ -367,7 +368,7 @@ so it looks like this:
Run the container
sudo docker run -v $(pwd):/config --network="host" --rm simplex-alerter -c /config/config.yml -e 127.0.0.1:1337
sudo docker run -v $(pwd):/config -v $(pwd):/alerterconfig -v $(pwd):/simplex --rm -p 127.0.0.1:7897:7897 simplex-alerter -c /alerterconfig/config.yml
It will connect to the simplex-chat client we started earlier. You can check the metrics to make sure it's running by checking the metrics page
@ -501,20 +502,6 @@ And here's the alert:
To turn the simplex-chat and the alerter into systemd services, you only need to create two files:
## /etc/systemd/system/simplex-chat.service
```sh
sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/simplex-chat.service
sudo cat /etc/systemd/system/simplex-chat.service
```
[Unit]
Requires=tor.service
[Service]
ExecStart=simplex-chat -d /etc/alerter_clientDB -p 1337 -x
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
## /etc/systemd/system/alerter.service
```sh
@ -522,19 +509,18 @@ sudo vim /etc/systemd/system/alerter.service
sudo cat /etc/systemd/system/alerter.service
[Unit]
Requires=simplex-chat.service
[Service]
ExecStart=docker run --rm simplex-alerter -c /etc/alerter-config.yaml -e 127.0.0.1:1337
ExecStart=docker run --rm simplex-alerter -v /my/alerter/folder:/simplex -v /my/alerter/folder:/alerterconfig -p 127.0.0.1:7897:7897 -c /alerterconfig/config.yaml
[Install]
WantedBy=simplex-chat.service
WantedBy=multi-user.service
```
## Enable the services
Now enable the service:
```sh
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable --now simplex-chat.service
sudo systemctl enable --now alerter.service
```
# Conclusion