Prey autostart on Ubuntu

I’m using prey deb (64) on Ubuntu 18.10
I added the following to autostart: /usr/lib/prey/current/bin/prey
no luck…
nothing in the logs, nothing in ps ax | grep prey…

Hi @jasmines,

Is your /var/log/prey.log file empty?
Could you run this command id -g prey and paste here the answer, please?

Regards,
Javo

/var/log/prey.log is empty
id -g prey gives 998

Ok,
now try this: sudo systemctl start prey-agent
Then check the prey log again, let me know how it goes.

sudo systemctl start prey-agent
Failed to start prey-agent.service: Unit prey-agent.service not found.

Are you sure it should be working? I’ve downloaded and installed this: https://downloads.preyproject.com/prey-client-releases/node-client/1.8.2/prey_1.8.2_amd64.deb

Seems that prey is not properly installed.

Try running sudo dpkg --purge prey
Then sudo dpkg -i prey-1.8.2_amd64.deb (With the path of the .deb file)

Purged, reinstalled and rebooted.
Now it’s seem it’s working:

sudo systemctl status prey-agent.service
● prey-agent.service - The Prey daemon.
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/prey-agent.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-01-18 15:56:07 CET; 1min 10s ago
Main PID: 1556 (prx)
Tasks: 11 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 55.4M
CGroup: /system.slice/prey-agent.service
├─1556 prx
└─1973 /usr/bin/dbus-monitor --system

gen 18 15:56:07 mauro-M14xR1 systemd[1]: Started The Prey daemon…
gen 18 15:56:08 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2019]: prey : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/usr/lib/prey/versions/1.8.2 ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
gen 18 15:56:08 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2019]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
gen 18 15:56:08 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2019]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
gen 18 15:56:11 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2538]: prey : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/usr/lib/prey/versions/1.8.2 ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
gen 18 15:56:11 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2538]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
gen 18 15:56:11 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2538]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
gen 18 15:56:14 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2720]: prey : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/usr/lib/prey/versions/1.8.2 ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/iwlist wlan0 scan
gen 18 15:56:14 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2720]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
gen 18 15:56:18 mauro-M14xR1 sudo[2720]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root

thanks a lot!

Awesome! :slight_smile: