Please forgive my ignorance if I missed something while going through the documentation, but from what I read, Vanguards should be running by default in Whonix and it is setup as a systemd service.
I just took a look into my Gateway and found this:
systemctl status vanguards.service
○ vanguards.service - Additional protections for Tor onion services
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/vanguards.service; disabled; preset: enabled)
Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/vanguards.service.d
└─30_anon-gw-anonymizer-config.conf, 40_qubes.conf
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:vanguards(1)
I took a few hardening steps from the documentation and have definitely not disabled the service.
Am I missing something here?
I use the newest version available.