Guide: rTorrent + ruTorrent installation

[Nachteule]

Tried to get it run and were successfully

There are some issues which has to be solved:

1) libgd2-xpm package does not exist anymore, it has been renamed (probably replaced by libgd3)
Solution (workaround): Use libgd2-xpm-dev instead, apt-get will resolve missing dependencies automatically. Not ideal, because a lot of dev packages will be installed - but it works

2) nginx does not start without ipv6
Solution: modprobe ipv6 before starting nginx or put it into file /etc/modules

Code:

# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

uinput
ipv6

Now rtorrent should start (as user root) and working properly

3) Run rtorrent as user xbian:xbian

3.1) change /etc/init.d/rtorrent

Code:

...
USER=xbian
GROUP=xbian

# chemin vers fichier conf

start() {

        echo -n "Starting $NAME: "
        start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $USER:$GROUP --nicelevel $NICE --background --pidfile $PID_FILE --exec /usr/bin/dtach --  -n $TMP rtorrent -n -o import=$CONFIG_FI
        sleep 1
        chgrp www-data /tmp/rtorrent.sock
        chmod 0775 /tmp/rtorrent.sock
        chmod 666 /tmp/rtorrent.dtach

        echo "started"

}

stop() {
...

3.2 Remove execute ... lines in /home/xbian/.rtorrent.rc

Code:

# Start opening ports at a random position within the port range.
# port_random = yes

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

# Check hash for finished torrents. Might be usefull until the bug is
# fixed that causes lack of diskspace not to be properly reported.

(because of rtorrent does not run under root, it does no have right do execute commands chgrp and chmod. This has to be done in /etc/init.d/rtorrent (see above))

3.3 change ownership of /home/xbian/rtorrent

Terminal

sudo chown -R xbian:xbian /home/xbian/rtorrent

3.4 restart rtorrent

Terminal

/etc/init.d/rtorrent restart

If you get the errormessage

Quote:Starting rtorrent: chmod: cannot access ‘/tmp/rtorrent.dtach’: No such file or directory

please run

Terminal

sudo rm -f /tmp/rtorrent.sock

and start rtorrent again

3.5 Reboot issue

To make sure that starting rtorrent working properly after (re)boot please modify file /etc/default/rcS

Code:

# /etc/default/rcS
#
# Default settings for the scripts in /etc/rcS.d/
#
# For information about these variables see the rcS(5) manual page.
#
# This file belongs to the "initscripts" package.

# delete files in /tmp during boot older than x days.
# '0' means always, -1 or 'infinite' disables the feature
TMPTIME=1

# spawn sulogin during boot, continue normal boot if not used in 30 seconds
#SULOGIN=no

# do not allow users to log in until the boot has completed
#DELAYLOGIN=no

# be more verbose during the boot process
#VERBOSE=no

# automatically repair filesystems with inconsistencies during boot
#FSCKFIX=no

TMPTIME must not be set to 0, because this flushes /tmp folder when system boots and rtorrent sockets has been vanished