Start Transmission with different user (init script)

[leb0rtran]

hi,

i installed transmission-daemon on debian and want to cahnge the user in the init script.
As you can see i changed the USER variable from "debian-transmission" to my own user "down":

Code: Select all

#!/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/bin/$NAME
#USER=debian-transmission
USER=down
STOP_TIMEOUT=30

export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/sbin"

[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0

[ -e /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

start_daemon () {
    if [ $ENABLE_DAEMON != 1 ]; then
        log_progress_msg "(disabled, see /etc/default/${NAME})"
    else
        start-stop-daemon --start \
        --chuid $USER \
                $START_STOP_OPTIONS \
        --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS
    fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        log_daemon_msg "Starting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start_daemon
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
    stop)
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT \
            --oknodo
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
    reload)
        log_daemon_msg "Reloading bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON \
            --oknodo --signal 1
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
    restart|force-reload)
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT \
            --oknodo
        start_daemon
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
    status)
        status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/$NAME {start|stop|reload|force-reload|restart|status}"
        exit 2
        ;;
esac

exit 0

if i Start transmission normaly via user down it works:

Code: Select all

root@download:/home/down# su down
down@download:~$ which transmission-daemon
/usr/bin/transmission-daemon
down@download:~$ transmission-daemon
down@download:~$ ps -ax | grep transmi
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5845 ?        Ssl    0:00 transmission-daemon
 5852 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep transmi$

but with the daemon it doesnt start:

Code: Select all

root@download:/home/down# ps -ax | grep tran
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5878 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep tran
root@download:/home/down# /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start
Starting bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemonroot@download:/home/down#
root@download:/home/down# ps -ax | grep tran
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5882 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep tran

with the normal user "debian-transmission" it works too

Code: Select all

root@download:/home/down# ps -ax | grep tran
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5886 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep tran
root@download:/home/down# /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start
Starting bittorrent daemon: transmission-daemon.
root@download:/home/down# ps -ax | grep tran
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
 5889 ?        Ssl    0:00 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon --config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info
 5899 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep tran

the two users in /etc/passwd:

Code: Select all

down:x:1000:1000:down,,,:/home/down:/bin/bash
debian-transmission:x:104:108::/home/debian-transmission:/bin/false

can anyone help?
if you need more information, please let me know

grz

[leb0rtran]

cant anybody help?

[maki.ato]

What does the log say?
Does the $USER user have the proper permissions for read/write the settings file?
Did you try to:

Code: Select all

sudo -u down transmission-daemon

Does that work?

[leb0rtran]

i figured it out:

the init script starts transmission with parameter "--config-dir /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info",
so the config dir wasnt standard ~/.config/...

Code: Select all

chown –R $USER /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info
chown –R $USER etc/transmission-daemon/

fixed teh problem.

Maybe its better if the script uses the home dir as config dir for users that have one
(standard user doesnt have home dir)