Run in background

Holesail can run connections in the background, persist them when the terminal closes and sync them across devices (in future).

To get a quick overview of all the commands, run:

holesail --help
Parameter
Purpose

--background

Run connection in the background.

--name

A unique name to identify the session.

--logs <session-name>

View logs for a connection, includes connection details.

--list

List all Holesail sessions.

--delete <session-name>

Delete a Holesail session.

--stop <session-name>

Stops a running session.

--start <session-name>

Starts a stopped session.

Examples

To Set a port live :

holesail --live 5000 --host 0.0.0.0 --background

Connect to a holesail connection:

holesail  2351b686a7de6469d11b721b68b04b12242cb8e0beb84a2f0855c7c0200aedd7 --port 3434 --background

Give our session a custom name:

holesail --live 3434 --name raspberrypi

View logs of a session:

holesail --logs holesail-raspberrypi

Delete a session:

holesail --delete holesail-raspberrypi

Delete all sessions:

holesail --delete all

Stop a holesail session:

holesail --stop raspberrypi

Note: If you did not set a custom connection string, stopping and restarting a session will reset it's connection string.

Start a stopped session:

holesail --start Raspberrypi

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