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Running i2pd

Starting, stopping and reloading configuration

This chapter explains how to start and manage i2pd daemon under *nix operation systems.

After you have built i2pd from source, just run a binary:

./i2pd

To display all available options:

./i2pd --help

i2pd can be controlled with signals. Process ID by default is written to file ~/.i2pd/i2pd.pid or /var/run/i2pd/i2pd.pid. You can use kill utility to send signals like this:

kill -INT $( cat /var/run/i2pd/i2pd.pid )

i2pd supports the following signals:

  • INT - Graceful shutdown. i2pd will wait for 10 minutes and stop. Send second INT signal to shutdown i2pd immediately.
  • HUP - Reload configuration files.

systemd unit

Some Linux packages have a systemd control unit, so it is possible to manage i2pd with it.

Start/stop i2pd:

sudo systemctl start i2pd.service
sudo systemctl stop i2pd.service --no-block

Stop command initiates a graceful shutdown process, i2pd stops after finishing to route transit tunnels (maximum 10 minutes).

Enable/disable i2pd to be started on bootup:

sudo systemctl enable i2pd.service
sudo systemctl disable i2pd.service

This way all i2pd-related files will be stored at $HOME/dist.

mkdir $HOME/dist
cp i2pd $HOME/dist
cp -R contrib/certificates $HOME/dist
cp contrib/i2pd.conf $HOME/dist
cd $HOME/dist
ulimit -n 4096  # only on Linux, increasing open file limit
./i2pd --datadir .