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Transmission start-up script for slackware.

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I installed transmission on a headless server so I need it to start on boot. The included start-up script was dependent on start-stop-daemon that is mission on Slackware. The examples on the transmission forums were ok but would resulted in transmission running as root and I want it to run as a non-privileged user. So I modified an example script to read like this:

 

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#!/bin/bash
#Slackware startup deamon script
 
# Name of Service
NAME="Transmission Daemon"
 
# Command to run
CMD="/usr/bin/transmission-daemon"
 
# Option to run with deamon
# -a means from where to accept incoming connections, comma separated
# you may want to add your local network if you have multiple clients
OPTIONS="-a 127.0.0.1"
 
# Process name of daemon, for killing it.
PROCESSNAME="/usr/bin/transmission-daemon"
 
# The name of the user that should run Transmission.
# It's RECOMENDED to run Transmission in it's own user,
# by default, this is set to 'transmission'.
# For the sake of security you shouldn't set a password
# on this user
USERNAME="transmission"
 
func_stop() {
        if [ "$(ps aux | grep $PROCESSNAME | grep -v grep)" ]; then
                echo -n "Stopping $NAME ... "
                killall $PROCESSNAME
                sleep 2
        fi
 
        if [ ! "$(ps aux | grep $PROCESSNAME | grep -v grep)" ]; then
                echo "Done!"
        else
                echo "Error!"
        fi
}
 
func_start() {
        echo -n "Starting $NAME ... "
        su - $USERNAME -c "$CMD $OPTIONS"
        sleep 2
 
        if [ "$(ps aux | grep $PROCESSNAME | grep -v grep)" ]; then
                echo "Done!"
        else
                echo "Error!"
        fi
}
 
 
case $1 in
        "start")
                func_start
                ;;
 
        "stop")
                func_stop
                ;;
 
        "restart")
                func_stop
                sleep 2
                func_start
                ;;
        *)
                echo "Usage; start|stop|restart"
                ;;
esac

After you test this script (make sure it starts as the user you want it to) be sure to add stop calls in /etc/rc.d/rc.6 , rc.K and start calls in rc.M (if you have a look at how rc.ntpd is called for example you’ll know how to add this one). Take care, breaking those scripts could leave you with a non functional system.


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