Guide: rTorrent + ruTorrent installation

[Stefano Badoino]

(20th Oct, 2014 05:08 AM)biker3 Wrote:  

(29th Sep, 2014 10:04 AM)Crazy Wrote:  Thank You for a Great script :-) I installed it on a Respbian and it works perfectly.

The ONLY problem I have is that the torrents are saved as root.

Where do I need to make the change so that torrents are downloaded as a user ?

Thanks :-)

Hi,

I've the same question. I suppose we need to do some change in /etc/init.d/rtorrent, because there's a USER var, but it is not used

In /etc/init.d/rtorrent change

start-stop-daemon --start --nicelevel $NICE --background --pidfile $PID_FILE --exec /usr/bin/dtach -- -n $TMP rtorrent -n -o import=$CONFIG_FILE

to

start-stop-daemon --start --chuid <YOUR_USER_HERE>:<YOUR_GROUP_HERE> --nicelevel $NICE --background --pidfile $PID_FILE --exec /usr/bin/dtach -- -n $TMP rtorrent -n -o import=$CONFIG_FILE

In my case, I used pi both for user and group (I'm on Raspbian), but if you are using Xbian maybe you want to use something like xbian:xbian.
Then, in .rtorrent.rc change

execute = {sh,-c,/bin/chgrp www-data /tmp/rtorrent.sock}
execute = {sh,-c,/bin/chmod g=rwx /tmp/rtorrent.sock}

to

execute = {sh,-c,/usr/bin/sudo /bin/chgrp www-data /tmp/rtorrent.sock}
execute = {sh,-c,/usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod g=rwx /tmp/rtorrent.sock}

Cheers!