rtorrent-init-script by Super Jamie <jamie@superjamie.net>
This is an initscript to run rTorrent on CentOS and Fedora
## Installation
* Put it at /etc/init.d/bittorrent and make it executable
chmod +x /etc/init.d/bittorrent
* Add to chkconfig
chkconfig --add bittorrent
* Set to start on system startup if desired
chkconfig bittorrent on
* If you want non-root users to be able to control it, put this in your
visudo, replace "username" with your non-priveledged username
username localhost=NOPASSWD:/etc/init.d/bittorrent*
* Setup an alias to the script in the user's ~/.bashrc
alias bittorrent='/etc/init.d/bittorrent'
alias bt='bittorrent'
## Requirements
* screen and rtorrent
* A non-priveledged user to run rtorrent, this can either be a new user
just to run torrents, or an existing user
* Absolute session path in the .rtorrent.rc file
session = /home/rtorrent/.session ## this is good
session = ~/.session ## this will break
session = .session ## so will this
Paths for other actions such as monitoring directories for .torrent files
and auto-moving complete downloads don't have to be absolute.
## Usage
* Control the daemon with
bittorrent start, bittorent stop, bittorrent restart
* Get information about the daemon with
bittorrent status, bittorrent info
* Connect to the screen session with
bittorrent connect
(press ctrl+a then d to disconnect)
## Licensing
Released under GNU GPL v3 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/