daemon + script on complete = hang

[zosky]

hi yall. lovin daemon but there seems to be a problem with the new feature to run script on complete...

here is the course of events (to reproduce the issue)...

• a torrent completes... daemon triggers the complete-script ... it waits
• the script tells daemon to move data to different locations (depending on the torrent's name & some rules)... it waits
  ... at this point the script is waiting for daemon ... daemon is waiting for the script ...
  
• eventually the script times out (no response from daemon) & daemon starts up again

rather then waiting for the script to complete, shouldn't daemon spawn it as a separate process & continue its business ? this way it can focus on the other torrs (and still respond to the script ). for the record - this is the perl script im using: myTV @hourly via cron

if im missing something, or doing something wrong, please let me know
thanks
~z

[Longinus00]

To work around this right now fork your script.

[zosky]

Longinus00, you are a pro! thanks
that a freakin easy work-around.
(kinda feel like a dip for not thinking of it myself)

• on-complete calls man-in-the-middle
• man-in-the-middle forks & dies
• daemon picks up again
• myTV tells daemon to move stuff

this should still be considered a bug ?
daemon should do the forking, right

[lazybones]

Longinus00, you are a pro! thanks
that a freakin easy work-around.
(kinda feel like a dip for not thinking of it myself)

• on-complete calls man-in-the-middle
• man-in-the-middle forks & dies
• daemon picks up again
• myTV tells daemon to move stuff

this should still be considered a bug ?
daemon should do the forking, right

I believe they made the script call blocking so that if you needed to do something to a file that transmission may have open that you could do your thing without transmission changing the files... Thus leaving the option to simply put a control script in that forks and doesn't block..

[Metallian]

Hi,

I think i have the same problem
I'm trying to run transmission-remote from a script.
When i launch it from the command line, everything runs fine
But when it is run from the script-torrent-done-filename directive, i get a timeout (RPC ERROR)

What does "fork a script" mean ?
How am I supposed to do that ?

Sorry if the question is dumb
I'm new to Linux

[Metallian]

I finally found the answer
you need to place the command into () with the symbol & at the end to run it in another process

Here's an easy example script to autoremove a torrent on completion

# !/bin/bash
(/opt/bin/transmission-remote --torrent $TR_TORRENT_ID --stop &)
(/opt/bin/transmission-remote --torrent $TR_TORRENT_ID --remove &)

[zosky]

thats a bad bad example
you need to seed your completes (or prepare to get flamed )

anyway, if you want to fork a whole script... try this

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    { 
        <multiple lines> 
    } &

here's what im doing

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#!/bin/bash
{
  # set vars 
  # unrar code ...  
  # move data ...

  # email notification
	echo "<table><tr><td></td><td>FYI, a new DL is ready<td></tr>
	       <tr><td align=right>TORRENT:</td><td><b>$TR_TORRENT_NAME</b></td></tr>
	       <tr><td align=right>LOCATION:</td><td><b>$LOCATION</b></td></tr>
	       <tr><td align=right>SOURCE:</td><td><b>$TRACKER</b></td></tr>
	       <tr><td align=right>ID:</td><td><b>$TR_TORRENT_ID</b></td></tr>
	       <tr><td></td><td>~homeNAS</trable>" > $MSG
	mail -a 'Content-Type: text/html' -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $MSG 

  # txt msg notificaction
	EMAIL="<redacted>"
	SUBJECT="newDL"
	echo "DONE: $TR_TORRENT_NAME" > $MSG
	mail -s "$SUBJECT" "$EMAIL" < $MSG 
} &