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socat systemd unit file for wsl2 to forward a port to windows host
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socat@.service
[Unit]
Description=Socat Greeting Service
Documentation=man:socat(1)
[Service]
User=root
Group=root
#ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "/usr/bin/env WSL_HOST=`tail -1 /etc/resolv.conf |cut -d' ' -f2` socat tcp-l:%i,fork,reuseaddr tcp:$WSL_HOST:%i "
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "socat tcp-l:%i,fork,reuseaddr tcp:`tail -1 /etc/resolv.conf |cut -d' ' -f2`:%i"
Restart=on-success
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
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TTTPOB commented Jan 24, 2021

I cannot figure out why the first one wont work, it basically did the same thing with the second one but with a environment variable

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