On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 16:59 -0500, Ephram wrote:
>
> I'm running Lucid (10.04). There's no cron or cron.log in /var/log. In the
> syslog, however, in the syslog, I only found:
> Nov 10 16:30:20 tomatogoatee CRON[658]: (root) CMD
> (/usr/bin/btdownloadcurses --saveas /shared/torrent /shared/a.torrent &)
That looks like the command was run successfully. How are you confirming
its not running? Do you see it running via ps?
Anyway cron is not the best way, I would just scratch that approach.
> I know it isn't necessary to reboot every time, but I just like to be
> thorough.
It doesn't really do anything, but if you want to have at it :)
> This is getting a little ridiculous. Surely there'd be an easier way to
> setup a dedicated, headless Linux torrent server. Google keeps running me
> around in circles to the same forums with the same problem I'm having. (In
> that all CLI torrent programs require a terminal window. Kinda hard to keep
> a terminal window open on a headless server...)
Well if you need a terminal window, use screen.
screen -dm -- /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses --saveas /shared/torrent
/shared/a.torrent
As part of a crude init script
#! /bin/sh
#
case "$1" in
start)
log_begin_msg "Starting blah..."
/bin/su - some_user -c "screen -dm -- /usr/bin/btdownloadcurses
--saveas /shared/torrent /shared/a.torrent"
log_end_msg 0
;;
stop)
;;
status)
;;
*)
log_success_msg "Usage: {start|stop|status}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
--
William L. Thomson Jr.
Obsidian-Studios, Inc.
http://www.obsidian-studios.com
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