rtorrent automatic start

[SteMan79Member]

I am trying to figure out how to make rtorrent start automatically when I boot geexbox but I cant seem to figure it out.

I saw the rtorrent.service and I have enabled it, gave it a systemctl start rtorrent and then….nothing
Status says it running (I think):

# systemctl status rtorrent
rtorrent.service – rtorrent daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rtorrent.service; enabled)
Active: active (exited) since Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:20:17 +0000
Process: 240 ExecStart=/usr/bin/runrtorrent (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rtorrent.service

I can use it fine if I do a CTRL+F2 and start rtorrent manually but that is kind of backwards so would really like to have it start automatically.

Can anyone help me here ?

[tomlohaveModerator]

do you have a screen process that run rtorrent ?

rtorrent can’t be daemonized, so that’s the solution I found : use screen.

you should install rutorrent too. It’s more easy to access rtorrent then :accessing rutorrent can be done using a browser and using : hppt://ip-of-geexbox/rutorrent

[SteMan79Member]

Well the service thingie calls runrtorrent (saying this from memory as I am not at home right now) and that has the screen command in it. It all looked very much like it should work but then again I am not very familiar with the systemctl stuff.

[tomlohaveModerator]

so, if you have a screen process, rtorrent is running

just put some .torrent files in /rtoorent/watch

then rtorent will begin to download them

do :

screen -r rtorrent

to access rtorrent process

but use rutorrent. it’s better

[tomlohaveModerator]

to see if a process is running, you can try :

ps ax | grep trorrent

[SteMan79Member]

Nothing was running yesterday but let me try your suggestions tonight, thanks so far!

[SteMan79Member]

Hmm seems I was a little too enthusiastic, I got the rutorrent working (without a connection to rtorrent btw) and thought it would be an idea to update all packages to the latest…bad idea…broken my geexbox.

Reinstalling now

[SteMan79Member]

Ok, so we are back again.

So rutorrent is handy yes, but how should I start rtorrent itself ?

[tomlohaveModerator]

ok, so I supposed rtorrent is really not running, … do you have package screen installed ?

[SteMan79Member]

Yup

[SteMan79Member]

Actually I can make rtorrent start by doing a CTRL+F2 and then login and start rtorrent from there but its a bit of a long way.

Would be nice if I could start it remote using putty or even better have it start automatically in the background at startup (doesn’t need to be a daemon or so)

[tomlohaveModerator]

what I did :

# opkg install rtorrent
Installing rtorrent (0.9.2-1) to root…
Downloading http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic/latest/binaries.i386/packages//rtorrent_0.9.2-1_i686.opk.
Installing screen (4.0.3-1) to root…
Downloading http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic/latest/binaries.i386/packages//screen_4.0.3-1_i686.opk.
Installing libtorrent (0.13.2-1) to root…
Downloading http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic/latest/binaries.i386/packages//libtorrent_0.13.2-1_i686.opk.
Installing libsigcpp (2.2.11-1) to root…
Downloading http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic/latest/binaries.i386/packages//libsigcpp_2.2.11-1_i686.opk.
Installing xmlrpc-c (1.32.05-1) to root…
Downloading http://download.geexbox.org/snapshots/geexbox-xbmc-i386-generic/latest/binaries.i386/packages//xmlrpc-c_1.32.05-1_i686.opk.
Configuring screen.
Configuring libsigcpp.
Configuring libtorrent.
Configuring xmlrpc-c.
Configuring rtorrent.
# systemctl start rtorrent
# systemctl status rtorrent
rtorrent.service – rtorrent daemon
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rtorrent.service; disabled)
Active: active (exited) since Wed 2013-04-10 18:07:08 UTC; 6s ago
Process: 841 ExecStart=/usr/bin/runrtorrent (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/rtorrent.service
├─846 /usr/bin/SCREEN -dmS rtorrent rtorrent -n -o import=/etc/rtorrent.rc
└─847 rtorrent -n -o import=/etc/rtorrent.rc

# ps ax | grep rtorrent
846 root    {screen} /usr/bin/SCREEN -dmS rtorrent rtorrent -n -o import=/etc/rtorrent.rc
847 root    rtorrent -n -o import=/etc/rtorrent.rc
853 root    grep rtorrent

and it works …

[SteMan79Member]

Hmm all precisely how I did it and everything looks the same almost, only I dont get this :

├─846 /usr/bin/SCREEN -dmS rtorrent rtorrent -n -o import=/etc/rtorrent.rc
└─847 rtorrent -n -o import=/etc/rtorrent.rc

The only difference I see is that your screen command is written with capitals and mine is written in small

[tomlohaveModerator]

can you try to start a screen session ?

just execute : screen

[SteMan79Member]

# screen
Please set a terminal type.

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