socatlord 1.1

A utility to manage all socats of yours

socatlord

socatlord is a tool to manage multiple socats

You feed it with a config file placed at /etc/socatlord that has the syntax like:

# this is a comment

9.9.9.9:80 -> 123.23.4.3.:81
80 -> 192.168.224.20:80
udp 0.0.0.0:23 -> 192.168.224.20:23

TCP is the default protocol. Socatlord will spawn as many socats as necessary.

Usage

After you put this file, call socatlord install. This will install and enable socatlord to start during your startups (only if you're using Systemd). /etc/socatlord will be created about then.

Later call socatlord run to terminate currently running socats and launch your own. This may terminate your SSH connection, if you're using a socat to proxy it though.

You can also call socatlord stop to stop all socats.

You can provide an optional argument of -v to see what commands are launched

Changelog

v1.1

• socat's will be silenced if the mode is not verbose
• better default /etc/socatlord

v1.0

First formal release