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dr4cul4
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 Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 1:25 pm Post subject: [HOWTO] btpd + btpd-webui |
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Hi all,
I just recently wanted to setup simple and easy to use torrent client on my server, which doesn't have X server. I couldn't find good client (I know mldonkey is nice, but I have issues with it and I just stopped trying) so I decided to try out btpd. After successful setup I downloaded web ui and I'm happy. If someone want to do it here it is how:
Do this as root.
Next you need to correctly setup daemon (I think that original script is screwed up if you use nologin users) so do the following:
| Code: | rm /etc/init.d/btpd
vi /etc/init.d/btpd |
Or use other editor like nano and paste this:
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
BTPDUSERHOME=`getent passwd ${BTPDUSER} | cut -d : -f 6`
BTPDHOME=${BTPDUSERHOME}/.btpd
BTPDSTARTUPLOG=${BTPDHOME}/startup.log
depend() {
need net
}
checkconfig() {
if [ -z ${BTPDUSER} ]; then
eerror "Must edit /etc/conf.d/btpd first."
return 1
elif [ -z "`getent passwd ${BTPDUSER}`" ]; then
eerror "Check /etc/conf.d/btpd's \${BTPDUSER}. '${BTPDUSER}' doesn't exist."
return 1
fi
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting BitTorrent Protocol Daemon"
checkconfig || return 1
if pgrep -u ${BTPDUSER} btpd >/dev/null; then
eerror "An instance of btpd is already running"
return 1
else
env HOME="${BTPDHOME}" start-stop-daemon --start \
-v --background \
--make-pidfile --pidfile /var/run/btpd.pid \
-c ${BTPDUSER} \
-x /usr/bin/btpd -- --no-daemon ${BTPDEXTRARGS} >${BTPDSTARTUPLOG}
sleep 2
if ! pgrep -u ${BTPDUSER} btpd > /dev/null; then
eerror "BitTorrent Protocol Daemon couldn't be started ! Check logfile: ${BTPDSTARTUPLOG}"
return 1
fi
fi
eend $?
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping BitTorrent Protocol Daemon"
checkconfig || return 1
env HOME="${BTPDUSERHOME}" btcli kill
eend $?
}
restart() {
svc_stop
sleep 3
svc_start
} |
Next setup your configuration:
| Code: | | vi /etc/conf.d/btpd |
Make it look like this (make sure you have a user created and set other values):
| Code: | # owner of btpd process (must be existing)
BTPDUSER="p2p"
# Extra arguments for btpd
BTPDEXTRARGS="--bw-in 128 --bw-out 10 -p 6666" |
Now we can run btpd by typing:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/btpd start |
To add to default run level type
| Code: | | rc-update add btpd default |
Now to nicely use the client you have to setup an alias for it
edit file /etc/bash/bashrc:
| Code: | | vi /etc/bash/bashrc |
And add at the bottom (you can use something else instead of bt, and of cource correct path to users home dir on which daemon is running):
| Code: | | alias bt='HOME="/home/p2p" btcli' |
Now we will setup Web UI
To get one you must have svn installed or download manually some how. We assume that svn is installed:
| Code: | cd
svn checkout http://btpd-webui.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ btpd-webui-read-only
cd btpd-webui-read-only/
python setup.py install |
In case of problems read requirements in file ~/btpd-webui-read-only/README
OK so we have almost working btpd-webui. Although it comes with btpd-webui service start stop script, it works only on current user. Means we run btpd on p2p user and btpd-webui would start as current user aka root. We need to create our own init script that would include that.
| Code: | | vi /etc/init.d/btpd-webui |
Paste this:
| Code: | #!/sbin/runscript
BTPDUSERHOME=`getent passwd ${BTPDUSER} | cut -d : -f 6`
BTPDUSERID=`getent passwd ${BTPDUSER} | cut -d : -f 3`
BTPDHOME=${BTPDUSERHOME}/.btpd
NAME=btpd-webui
BWHOMEDIR=${BTPDUSERHOME}/.btpd-webui
LOGFILE=$BWHOMEDIR/twistd.log
PIDFILE=$BWHOMEDIR/twistd.pid
TWISTD=`which twistd`
BTPDWEBUI=`which btpd-webui-server`
depend() {
need net btpd
}
checkconfig() {
# Ensure we have the twistd program
if [ ! $TWISTD ]; then
echo "Can't find twistd. Do you have twisted installed?"
return 1
fi
# Ensure we have btpd-webui-server
if [ ! $BTPDWEBUI ]; then
echo "Can't find btpd-webui-server. Is it installed and in your path?"
exit 1
fi
# Make the btpd-webui home directory if needed.
if [ ! -d $HOMEDIR ]; then
mkdir --mode=770 $HOMEDIR
chown ${BTPDUSER} $HOMEDIR
fi
}
start() {
ebegin "Starting BitTorrent Protocol Daemon Web UI"
checkconfig || return 1
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
echo "$NAME is already running."
else
echo -n "Starting $NAME via twistd..."
env HOME="${BTPDUSERHOME}" $TWISTD --uid=${BTPDUSERID} --rundir=${BTPDUSERHOME} --logfile=$LOGFILE --pidfile=$PIDFILE --python=$BTPDWEBUI
sleep 1
test -f $PIDFILE
fi
eend test $?
}
stop() {
ebegin "Stopping BitTorrent Protocol Daemon Web UI"
checkconfig || return 1
if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]; then
echo "$NAME is not running."
else
echo -n "Stopping $NAME via twistd..."
kill `cat $PIDFILE`
sleep 1
test ! -f $PIDFILE
fi
eend $?
}
restart() {
svc_stop
sleep 3
svc_start
} |
You also need to configure this service:
| Code: | | vi /etc/conf.d/btpd-webui |
We only need to setup user name:
| Code: | # owner of btpd-webui process (must be existing)
BTPDUSER="p2p" |
Now we need to test if that works:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/btpd-webui start |
In your browser type address:
| Code: | | http://server.name:12321/ |
Login name and password btpd
To setup btpd-webui edit /home/p2p/.btpd-webui/config
To add btpd-webui to default run level type
| Code: | | rc-update add btpd-webui default |
You can remove ~/btpd-webui-read-only directory.
Enjoy. Hope someone soon will make ebuild of btpd-webu and fix existing ebuild of btpd. |
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dr4cul4
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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You also could wand to add this line to /etc/init.d/btpt in stop() function
| Code: | sleep 2
kill -9 `ps ax | grep '/usr/bin/btpd ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1` |
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