Howto: TeamSpeak 3 server in pfSense 2.0

HooKed

Nice :) to see more people are using Teamspeak on their PFSense box. I have created a package to install, update and manage Teamspeak using the webinterface. I have also made a few modification to run the service as a non-root user; to minimize the security risk (in similar way you are doing). I still agree on the warning; you should only use this in your home environment, never install such service in a corporate or production network!

But I wondering if people would like to use this package?

I think it would be nice to have a package installer for Teamspeak for pfSense.

I was thinking about doing the same thing but i don't even know how to start making a package installer.

As soon as i can check it out i would like to see what it can do.

Sander88

I gonna look into how to distribute this (to the packages GIT). One thing that might be a license issue: my code downloads the Teamspeak 3 binaries from their (update) servers. Teamspeak 3 is closed source, so would that be an issue? Can anyone tell if this allowed?

HooKed

@Sander88:

I gonna look into how to distribute this (to the packages GIT). One thing that might be a license issue: my code downloads the Teamspeak 3 binaries from their (update) servers. Teamspeak 3 is closed source, so would that be an issue? Can anyone tell if this allowed?

I just posted on Teamspeaks forum about what you want to do. Maybe an moderator will answer soon.
Here is the thread http://forum.teamspeak.com/showthread.php/94571-Is-This-OK-pfSense-Package-for-TS3

Sander88

Thanks. I have sent them a message with some details about the URL we are using. So waiting for them to reply if this is allowed.

Sander88

@Sander88:

Thanks. I have sent them a message with some details about the URL we are using. So waiting for them to reply if this is allowed.

I have received a response: "Thank you for contacting TeamSpeak and inquiring about direct downloading of our files. Unfortunately, we only allow our files to be downloaded by the actual individuals directly from our website because the must accept the End User License Agreement (EULA) before they are allowed to download our software. This whole process is bypassed if the software is directly downloaded by any other means, and is therefore, not allowed."

So linking directly is not allowed; I will look into another solution. I'm thinking about letting the user download the files (some kind of archive file) manually and providing an upload form to put the files on PFSense. It would do the trick and Teamspeak is happy as users have to accept their EULA.

HooKed

Yea I kinda figured that may be the case.

Let me know when you get it to the testing faze, I would like to help test it out.

kevev

Awsome Sander88! This would be great for people who are afraid to install the manual way.

Sander88

@HooKed:

Yea I kinda figured that may be the case.

Let me know when you get it to the testing faze, I would like to help test it out.

The Teamspeak 3 package is available for testing purposes in my fork of the pfSense package GIT: https://github.com/sander1988/pfsense-packages . I made some last minute modifications to make it compatible with PFSense 2.1 and added the server upload form (as discussed earlier in this thread).

HooKed and others please test it! ;) I'm looking forward to your feedback. Please include the PFSense version and architecture in your message when you are running into any issues. Just a little reminder: it's a first test release; so don't test it on your production box at this time as it might break things!

HooKed

Awesome! As soon as i get a little free time i'm going to check this out.

I do have a test pfsense server to play with. :)

citroen

Thanks for suggestion to make teamspeak available on pfsense. I did like op wrote. Everything is working, but there is one thing i don´t understand. Every time i restart the box, teamspeak won´t come up. I have to login (ssh) and start teamspeak manually. I can´t figure out what is going on. Would be nice if someone can help me. And how do i use the scripts from Sander88? Can u get me to the point?

Thank you all…

Regards

HooKed

I installed Cron package then added this


minute 	hour 	mday 	month 	wday 	who 	command
0  	*  	*  	*  	*  	root  	/usr/local/lib/teamspeak3-server_freebsd-x86/ts3server_startscript.sh start

Your install location may be different.

There may be a better config but this works for me.

It seems to take a few mins for the ts server to be active after reboot but it always starts up.

citroen

So did i. When i start TS manually, i get this:

ts3server.pid found, but no server running. Possibly your previously started server crashed
Please view the logfile for details.
Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server

I took a look to /etc/, but did not find a startscript (rc.conf or similar). Think, thats why TS don´start at boot. OP provide a script to start Ts on boot with rc.conf, how does pfsense doing this?

So i will test your suggestion.

So also looks like a shutdown of the box don´t proper shutdown TS. Will see if after reboot TS is coming up…

Just one question left, what does Sander88 script doing?

Regards

Sander88

@citroen:

So did i. When i start TS manually, i get this:
ts3server.pid found, but no server running. Possibly your previously started server crashed
Please view the logfile for details.
Starting the TeamSpeak 3 server
I took a look to /etc/, but did not find a startscript (rc.conf or similar). Think, thats why TS don´start at boot. OP provide a script to start Ts on boot with rc.conf, how does pfsense doing this?

So i will test your suggestion.

So also looks like a shutdown of the box don´t proper shutdown TS. Will see if after reboot TS is coming up…

Just one question left, what does Sander88 script doing?

Regards

Thanks for testing it.

The package installer should create a service file for Teamspeak: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/teamspeak3.sh . PFSense normally run all the service start scripts from this directory (/usr/local/etc/rc.d/). Could you please check if this file exists in your installation? And does it have the executable permission set?

citroen

Found a file named "teamspeak3-server.sh" with executable rights. So i think this is the one created by the OP. I didi not test the script, cause i dont know how to do this. Thats why a ask for. How do i execute this on pfsense and what does it do?

Thank you for your response.

kevev

The best thing to do at this point is to wipe your pfsense box and either start with my instructions or do the easiest thing by installing the package.

afakih

Dear,
as i am new to pfsense can you give detailed description on howto install your package.
Thanks

bryan.paradis

If worried about attack vectors you could try making a jail first haven't tried this package yet but https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfJailctl_package You could place it in a freebsd jail.

Sander88

@afakih:

Dear,
as i am new to pfsense can you give detailed description on howto install your package.
Thanks

afakih, do you or someone else still need any help?

opjohnny

Any news on this? I am interested in getting a TS3 server set up on my pfSense box and I'm not sure if these instructions/packages will work on the latest pfSense version.

ETA: The instructions in the OP didn't work for me, or maybe I'm doing something wrong. At the last step where I check the logs, the log directory didn't even exist so I "/usr/local/lib/teamspeak3-server_freebsd-x86/ts3server.sh start" from webGUI cmd and that produced tiny logs with barely any info in them every time I started the script. What's an easy way to wipe everything I created with these instructions in order to avoid future issues?

Sander88

I put the source code on GitHub a year ago. That's also the version I have been using over the last year, no issues so far :).

Below some steps you have to take to install the package. I will also request the PFSense maintaincers to pull my package, that would make it much easier for you to install it (just a single click).

What you should do is:
1. Setup a private packages server (a simple Apache server would be ok). Some docs are available on this: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Creating_a_Custom_Package_Repository .
2. Git clone my GitHub repository (https://github.com/sander1988/pfsense-packages) instead of the offical one.
3. Install the TeamSpeak 3 package using the PFSense webinterface.
4. Follow the TeamSpeak 3 wizard to install the server binaries (the latest version is downloaded by the enduser from TeamSpeak, there are no binaries included in my package).
5. Configure and run the TeamSpeak 3 server using the webinterface. You can find the initial TS3 administrator token in the Teamspeak > Logs tab.
6. Disable the custom repository and don't install any other package from my repository! All other packages in my version are really outdated. I created a copy of the official repository more than a year ago.