# Usage

## Run
You can run the initialised client by doing this:

```
./nym-socks5-client run --id docs-example
```

## Automating your socks5 client with systemd
Create a service file for the socks5 client at `/etc/systemd/system/nym-socks5-client.service`:

```ini
[Unit]
Description=Nym Socks5 Client
StartLimitInterval=350
StartLimitBurst=10

[Service]
User=nym # replace this with whatever user you wish
LimitNOFILE=65536
ExecStart=/home/nym/nym-socks5-client run --id <your_id>
KillSignal=SIGINT
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```

Now enable and start your socks5 client:

```
systemctl enable nym-socks5-client.service
systemctl start nym-socks5-client.service
# you can always check your socks5 client has succesfully started with:
systemctl status nym-socks5-client.service
```

## Using your Socks5 Client
After completing the steps above, your local Socks5 Client will be listening on `localhost:1080` ready to proxy traffic to the Network Requester set as the `--provider` when initialising.

When trying to connect your app, generally the proxy settings are found in `settings->advanced` or `settings->connection`.

Here is an example of setting the proxy connecting in Blockstream Green:

![Blockstream Green settings](/images/developers/blockstream-green.gif)

Most wallets and other applications work the same way: find the network proxy settings and enter the proxy url (host: **localhost**, port: **1080**).

In some other applications, this might be written as **localhost:1080** if there's only one proxy entry field.

## Useful Commands
**no-banner**

Adding `--no-banner` startup flag will prevent Nym banner being printed even if run in tty environment.

**build-info**

A `build-info` command prints the build information (commit hash, rust version, binary version), the same as `--version`. You can also specify an `--output=json` flag that formats the whole output as JSON, which is much easier to parse.