I'm trying to set up an Ubuntu 14.04 box with rTorrent and ruTorrent. I've installed rTorrent and it launches just fine using my own user account.
I've created a new user account named rtorrent to run rTorrent.
sudo adduser --system --group rtorrent Next I set up the config file .rtorrent.rc in /home/rtorrent and made rtorrent the owner of said file.
sudo chown rtorrent:rtorrent .rtorrent.rc I would very much like for rtorrent to automatically start. I borrowed the below init script from this guide:
#!/bin/bash ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: rtorrent # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: Start/stop rtorrent daemon ### END INIT INFO ## Username to run rtorrent under, make sure you have a .rtorrent.rc in the ## home directory of this user! USER="rtorrent" ## Absolute path to the rtorrent binary. ## run "which rtorrent" RTORRENT="/usr/local/bin/rtorrent" ## Absolute path to the screen binary. SCREEN="/usr/bin/screen" ## Name of the screen session, you can then "screen -r rtorrent" to get it back ## to the foreground and work with it on your shell. SCREEN_NAME="rtorrent" ## Absolute path to rtorrent's PID file. PIDFILE="/var/run/rtorrent.pid" ## Absolute path to rtorrent's XMLRPC socket. SOCKET="/var/run/rtorrent/rpc.socket" ## Check if the socket exists and if it exists delete it. delete_socket() { if [[ -e $SOCKET ]]; then rm -f $SOCKET fi } case "$1" in ## Start rtorrent in the background. start) echo "Starting rtorrent." delete_socket start-stop-daemon --start --background --oknodo \ --pidfile "$PIDFILE" --make-pidfile \ --chuid $USER \ --exec $SCREEN -- -DmUS $SCREEN_NAME $RTORRENT if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then echo "Error: rtorrent failed to start." exit 1 fi echo "rtorrent started successfully." ;; ## Stop rtorrent. stop) echo "Stopping rtorrent." start-stop-daemon --stop --oknodo --pidfile "$PIDFILE" if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then echo "Error: failed to stop rtorrent process." exit 1 fi delete_socket echo "rtorrent stopped successfully." ;; ## Restart rtorrent. restart) "$0" stop sleep 1 "$0" start || exit 1 ;; ## Print usage information if the user gives an invalid option. *) echo "Usage: $0 [start|stop|restart]" exit 1 ;; esac Next:
sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/rtorrent sudo update-rc.d rtorrent defaults 99 Sadly, after a reboot and doing
sudo top rtorrent is nowhere to be seen. When I do
sudo /etc/init.d/rtorrent start I receive the message that rtorrent has started, but I still can't find it when running top.
How can I get it to work?
1 Answer
Shortly after posting this question it dawned on me. My .rtorrent.rc file was not the same for both users. After fixing the config for the user rtorrent everything works.
