I've installed transmission-daemon on a server (with Ubuntu 11.04) from sources. I have created several init.d files to several users (each user has its transmission-daemon process with its config and its download folders).
I have used the init script in deb files (from Transmission stable PPA) adapted to my needs:
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#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: transmission-daemon
# Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the transmission-daemon.
### END INIT INFO
NAME=transmission-daemon
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/$NAME
USER=user
STOP_TIMEOUT=3
CONFIGDIR=/home/$USER/.config/transmission-daemon
PIDFILE=$CONFIGDIR/daemon.pid
OPTIONS="--config-dir $CONFIGDIR --logfile $CONFIGDIR/daemon.log"
export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/sbin"
[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0
. /lib/lsb/init-functions
case "$1" in
start)
log_daemon_msg "Starting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid $USER --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
log_end_msg 0
;;
stop)
log_daemon_msg "Stopping bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT --oknodo
log_end_msg 0
;;
reload)
log_daemon_msg "Reloading bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --oknodo --signal 1
log_end_msg 0
;;
restart|force-reload)
log_daemon_msg "Restarting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT --oknodo
start_daemon
log_end_msg 0
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart}"
exit 2
;;
esac
exit 0
I have searched more information about this and I've found this example in the wiki of this site, I have adapted to my needs but it doesn't work the stop part:
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Stopping bittorrent client transmission-daemon...
start-stop-daemon: warning: this system is not able to track process names longer than 15 characters, please use --exec instead of --name.
Stopping bittorrent client transmission-daemon succeeded
Then I've tried with:
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#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: transmission-daemon
# Required-Start: networking
# Required-Stop: networking
# Default-Start: 2 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start the transmission BitTorrent daemon client.
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
DESC="bittorrent client"
NAME=transmission-daemon
DAEMON=$(which $NAME) || exit 0
USERNAME=user
SCRIPTNAME=$(basename $0)
CONFIGDIR=/home/$USERNAME/.config/transmission-daemon
PIDFILE=/var/run/$SCRIPTNAME.pid
TRANSMISSION_ARGS="-f --config-dir $CONFIGDIR --logfile $CONFIGDIR/daemon.log"
do_start()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been started
# 1 if daemon was already running
# 2 if daemon could not be started
start-stop-daemon --chuid $USERNAME --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile \
--exec $DAEMON --background --test -- $TRANSMISSION_ARGS > /dev/null \
|| return 1
start-stop-daemon --chuid $USERNAME --start --pidfile $PIDFILE --make-pidfile \
--exec $DAEMON --background -- $TRANSMISSION_ARGS \
|| return 2
}
do_stop()
{
# Return
# 0 if daemon has been stopped
# 1 if daemon was already stopped
# 2 if daemon could not be stopped
# other if a failure occurred
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/10/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON
RETVAL="$?"
[ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
# Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
rm -f $PIDFILE
return "$RETVAL"
}
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting $DESC" "$NAME..."
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) echo " Starting $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;;
*) echo " Starting $DESC $NAME failed" ;;
esac
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping $DESC $NAME..."
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1) echo " Stopping $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;;
*) echo " Stopping $DESC $NAME failed" ;;
esac
;;
restart)
echo "Restarting $DESC $NAME..."
do_stop
case "$?" in
0|1)
do_start
case "$?" in
0|1) echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME succeeded" ;;
*) echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME failed: couldn't start $NAME" ;;
esac
;;
*)
echo " Restarting $DESC $NAME failed: couldn't stop $NAME" ;;
esac
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart}" >&2
exit 3
;;
esac
To create the init script links I have executed:
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update-rc.d trans-user start 30 2 3 5 . stop 70 0 1 6 .Is this correct?
If anyone has one suggestion or improvement, I appreciate it.
One note. In script of wiki page there is an error with the lines:
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DAEMON=$(which $NAME)
....
# Exit if the package is not installed
[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0It's better this: "DAEMON=$(which $NAME) || exit 0", in same line it retrieves the path of DAEMON or it exits if it doesn't exist.
Regards.