v2ray-core: V2ray 5.1.0 unable to run as a systemd service

What version of V2Ray are you using?

5.1.0

What’s your scenario of using V2Ray?

I have installed a new server, and the script automatically installed v 5.1.0, unable to run v2ray as a service on Debian 10 Server.

What problems have you encountered?

Starting v2ray as a service exits with (code=exited, status=2). Full error is the following Process: 1173 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/v2ray -config /usr/local/etc/v2ray/config.json (code=exited, status=2)

The problem is ExecStart. If I run the line /usr/local/bin/v2ray -config /usr/local/etc/v2ray/config.json in terminal directly I get the following output: flag provided but not defined: -config Usage of /usr/local/bin/v2ray:

However if I run this /usr/local/bin/v2ray run -c /usr/local/etc/v2ray/config.json then v2ray will run.

So I edited as root /etc/systemd/system/v2ray.service and changed the file to have the following line ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/v2ray run -c /usr/local/etc/v2ray/config.json

I then ran the following systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl restart v2ray

However when I run systemctl status v2ray I get the following output:

● v2ray.service - V2Ray Service
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/v2ray.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/v2ray.service.d
           └─10-donot_touch_single_conf.conf
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2022-09-08 02:38:45 UTC; 11min ago
     Docs: https://www.v2fly.org/
  Process: 1173 ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/v2ray -config /usr/local/etc/v2ray/config.json (code=exited, status=2)
 Main PID: 1173 (code=exited, status=2)

Sep 08 02:38:45 ONEVPS220908004518 systemd[1]: v2ray.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUM
Sep 08 02:38:45 ONEVPS220908004518 systemd[1]: v2ray.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 08 02:38:45 ONEVPS220908004518 systemd[1]: v2ray.service: Service RestartSec=100ms expired, scheduling restart.
Sep 08 02:38:45 ONEVPS220908004518 systemd[1]: v2ray.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Sep 08 02:38:45 ONEVPS220908004518 systemd[1]: Stopped V2Ray Service.
Sep 08 02:38:45 ONEVPS220908004518 systemd[1]: v2ray.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Sep 08 02:38:45 ONEVPS220908004518 systemd[1]: v2ray.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Sep 08 02:38:45 ONEVPS220908004518 systemd[1]: Failed to start V2Ray Service.

Please note that it is defaulting back to ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/v2ray -config /usr/local/etc/v2ray/config.json and not accepting my edited ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/v2ray run -c /usr/local/etc/v2ray/config.json

What’s your expectation?

v2ray should run as a service on the server, however unable to as ExeStart is defaulting back to a faulty launch command.

Please attach your configuration here

{ “inbounds”: [{ “sniffing”: { “enabled”: true, “destOverride”: [ “http”, “tls” ] }, “port”: 8388, “listen”: “127.0.0.1”, “protocol”: “vmess”, “settings”: { “clients”: [ { “id”: “4a4a022b-a073-4094-899a-ca04a5c232cd”, “level”: 1, “alterId”: 0, “security”: “auto” } ] }, “streamSettings”: { “network”: “ws”, “wsSettings”: { “path”: “/websocket/” } } }], “outbounds”: [{ “protocol”: “freedom”, “settings”: {} },{ “protocol”: “blackhole”, “settings”: {}, “tag”: “blocked” }], “routing”: { “domainStrategy”: “AsIs”, “rules”: [ { “type”: “field”, “ip”: [“geoip:private”, “geoip:cn”], “outboundTag”: “block”, “protocol”: [“bittorrent”] } ] } }

If V2Ray cannot start up, please attach output from --test command

flag provided but not defined: -config Usage of /usr/local/bin/v2ray: