utorrent startup script / run utorrent on boot – Ubuntu 14.04 / 14.10
After making a how-to on Installing utorrent on Ubuntu 14.04, I have been receiving a lot of requests asking me how to run utorrent on boot, whoever uses utorrent on Linux are like to have startup script for utorrent which helps to start the utorrent on system startup.
The following script is made up of two different scripts put together.
1. The main script took from GitHub, thanks to Vortex.
2. Changes in init scripts took from rtorrent, thanks to labad.
PS: I don’t even want to change the content if anyone feels this is violating any rules; feel free to comment and get it removed.
Step 1: Create a file called utorrent.
$ sudo nano utorrent
Step 2: Paste the following content.
Note: Modify the yellow marked once depends on the uTorrent installation.
#!/bin/sh ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: rtorrent_autostart # Required-Start: $local_fs $remote_fs $network $syslog $netdaemons # Required-Stop: $local_fs $remote_fs # Default-Start: 2 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6 # Short-Description: rtorrent script using screen(1) # Description: rtorrent script using screen(1) to keep torrents working without the user logging in ### END INIT INFO # # # Original source: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=88044 # # uTorrent start stop service script # # copy to /etc/init.d # run "update-rc.d utorrent defaults" to install # run "update-rc.d utorrent remove" to remove # # # version 2 improvments by: # @author FanFan Huang ([email protected]) # # UTORRENT_PATH=/opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/ #where you extracted your utserver executable LOGFILE=/opt/utorrent-server-alpha-v3_3/utorrent.log #must be a writable directory USER=raj #any user account you can create the utorrent user if you like GROUP=users NICE=15 SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/utorrent #must match this file name DESC="uTorrent Server for Linux" CHDIR=$UTORRENT_PATH NAME=utserver UT_SETTINGS=$UTORRENT_PATH UT_LOG=$LOGFILE DAEMON_ARGS="-settingspath ${UT_SETTINGS} -logfile ${UT_LOG}" DAEMON=$CHDIR/$NAME PIDFILE=/var/run/utorrent.pid STOP_TIMEOUT=5 INIT_VERBOSE=yes FAILURE=false # Exit if the package is not installed [ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0 # Read configuration variable file if it is present [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME # Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables . /lib/init/vars.sh # Define LSB log_* functions. # Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present. . /lib/lsb/init-functions # # Function that starts the daemon/service # do_start() { FAILURE=false # Return # 0 if daemon has been started # 1 if daemon was already running # 2 if daemon could not be started # 3 if port bind failed start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel $NICE --quiet --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid $USER:$GROUP --chdir $CHDIR --background --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null if [ "$?" = "1" ]; then return 1 fi start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel $NICE --quiet --make-pidfile --pidfile $PIDFILE --chuid $USER:$GROUP --chdir $CHDIR --background --exec $DAEMON -- $DAEMON_ARGS if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then return 2 fi #bind validation while [ ! -e $LOGFILE ]; do sleep 1 #Wait for file to be generated done ######################## DISABLED ENABLE THIS SECTION IF YOU HAVE IPv6 HANGS WITH NO IPv6 Support ################ # while [ ! -n "$(cat $LOGFILE|grep 'IPv6 is installed')" ]; do # #wait until utorrent has finished bootup (IPv6 MESSAGE is the last message)# # sleep 1 # done RESULT=$(cat $LOGFILE|grep 'bind failed') if [ -n "$RESULT" ]; then return 3 fi return 0 } # # Function that stops the daemon/service # 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/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME RETVAL="$?" if [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ]; then return 2 fi start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON RETVAL="$?" if [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ]; then return 2 fi #block process until server is completed shutting down fully while [ -n "$(pidof "$NAME")" ]; do sleep 1 done # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit. rm -f $PIDFILE rm -f $LOGFILE #we don't want to keep our logfile return "$RETVAL" } # # Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service # do_reload() { # # If the daemon can reload its configuration without # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP), # then implement that here. # start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME return 0 } msg_start() { case "$1" in 0|1) if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then log_end_msg 0 fi ;; 2) if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then log_end_msg 1 fi ;; 3) if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then log_daemon_msg "Port bind failure detected uTorrent may have limited functionality please change the bind port and restart uTorrent" log_end_msg 1 fi ;; esac } msg_stop() { case "$1" in 0|1) if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then log_end_msg 0 fi ;; *) if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then log_daemon_msg "Failed to stop service exit status $STATUS" log_end_msg 1 fi esac } case "$1" in start) if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" fi do_start msg_start "$?" ;; stop) if [ "$VERBOSE" != no ]; then log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" fi do_stop msg_stop "$?" ;; status) if [ -e "$PIDFILE" ]; then PID=" PID:($(cat $PIDFILE))" else PID="" fi status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "uTorrent$PID" if [ "$?" != "0" ]; then exit $? fi ;; restart|force-reload) # # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the # 'force-reload' alias # log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" do_stop STATUS="$?" if [ "$STATUS" -ne 0 ] && [ "$STATUS" -ne 1 ]; then log_daemon_msg "Could not stop exit status $STATUS" log_end_msg 1 exit 1 fi do_start STATUS="$?" case "$STATUS" in 0) log_end_msg 0 ;; *) log_daemon_msg "Restart failed start exist status $STATUS" log_end_msg 1 esac ;; log) if [ -e "$LOGFILE" ]; then LOG=$(cat $LOGFILE) echo "$LOG" else echo "uTorrent is not running no active log file" fi ;; *) echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload|log}" >&2 exit 3 ;; esac
Save and close the file.
Step 3: Mark this file as executable.
$ sudo chmod 755 utorrent
Step 4: Copy / Move the file to /etc/init.d/
sudo cp utorrent /etc/init.d/
Step 5: Goto the init script directory.
$ cd /etc/init.d/
Step 6: Run the following command to install a utorrent startup script file.
$ sudo update-rc.d utorrent defaults
Step 7: Start utorrent using the following command.
$ sudo service utorrent start
Extras
utorrent service can be stopped using the following command.
$ sudo service utorrent stop
You can also remove utorrent startup script file using the following command in the init script directory.
$ sudo update-rc.d utorrent remove
That’s All!. Happy downloading.