mldonkey init.d script

Bushmann · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 12:59 am Post subject: mldonkey init.d script

Hi, emerge mldonkey yesterday (it's great) and found out there are two things missing:

1.) init.d script to start it automatically after boot
2.) option to reduce/increas bandwith easily per commandline.

so what I did is look into this (and other) forums and created a first little script on my own, based on the ideas of Wilhelm,
b-o-s-s and donk

Now here it is:

/etc/init.d/mldonkey

b-o-s-s · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 36

Hi Bushmann,

your script looks very nice! It's just like what I wanted to do, but I was too lazy too figure it out exacty.... Thanks for noticing me, I'll try it tonight.

But one point I don't understand. You use the config file '/etc/conf.d/mldonkey'. How does this work? Is it a property of runscript to look automatically in '/etc/conf.d/' for a configfile named after the script? This really interests me.

And of course it would be very nice if a script like yours was in the ebuild. I think most people emerging mldonkey will want to start it at boot-time...

Bushmann · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 1:35 pm Post subject:

yes that's the way it goes...
I have to admin I'm also n00b in this things, but it seems to work

and I have submitted an ebuild as bug request, so perhaps with some help we'll make it

at the moment when you emerge my ebuild, it creates a special user p2p with
homedirectory /home/p2p (could be changed though), and starting the script results in executing mldonkey with owner p2p. The files are either directly stored in /home/p2p, or if you like in another dir like /home/p2p/.mldonkey (you could perhaps also use other filesharing clients with user p2p, so that could make sense and thats the way I do it at the moment).

The cool feature I copied from the donk script is that you can easily tell mldonkey to use much or little bandwidth, so if you need your line (probably for gaming or if other ppl at your line begin to protest, as in my case

just do /etc/init.d/mldonkey slow

And, you can of course tell your PC to start mldonkey every time you boot with rc-update add mldonkey default

so for me at the moment that's all I need

Wilhelm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 149

Haven't tested it yet but it seems to be a nice script that should work.

However as explained in my other posts mldonkey has issues that cannot be scripted away. I'm still waiting for a new update of mldonkey which makes HTML downloading work properly etc..

Anyhow hopefully the ebuild will be fixed soon

Bushmann · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 3:27 pm Post subject:

I'm sorry I don't understand your problem, what exactly doesn't work with mldonkey/HTML? I'm testing this script at the moment and it seems to work with no problems, so what should I test/try?

Wilhelm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 149

2 things happen with my mldonkey that suck.

1. Config get's fucked unless you do it with the HTML tool.

2. After a while the HTML tool gives me a Document doesn't contain data error in mozilla.

meyerm · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 10:19 pm Post subject:

Just great your scripts. :-D

Thanks

Bushmann · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 10:11 am Post subject:

yeah, but using the html interface with wget should work, shouldn't it?
the thing with mozilla didn't appear for me, strange.
btw., there's now a new ebuild with the changes, it creates a new user p2p and installs the init.d script, starting it makes mldonkey run in /home/p2p/.mldonkey. Btw. I find it comfortable to ln -s .mldonkey/incoming.
You could check it out, but it seems to work just fine.

Rosjahh · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 12:17 pm Post subject:

Hi, I don't know if anybody still looks here. The script looks great. But for some reason I cannot get it to work here. When I try to start mldonkey I get the following output. A "ps -a |grep ml" shows that mlnet and mldonkey are not running at all.

mo-ca · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 1:11 pm Post subject:

hi,

you script looks really nice, but i'm having 1 big problem:

Rosjahh · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 1:20 pm Post subject:

mo-ca, are you sure that you copied the entire script ? In my case, the first time I copied it, I missed the "}" at the bottom. I think it should be something like that.

Somehow, I don't get the funny errors anymore. I don't know why. Mldonkey also starts now as it should. I think that had to do with a configuration error in downloads.ini that I now resolved.

kamui · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 74 Location: SoCal, USA

I am also have problems using this script, I have read thought it a number of times and am quite sure that I have it copyed over correctly. When I run the scripts it reads as follows:

neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

personaly I setup a mldonkey user account, and in /home/mldonkey/.mldonkey I got:

chkmldonkey:

kamui · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 74 Location: SoCal, USA

Could you list what you added into your crontab. And also where you are keeping chkmldonkey? Sorry but I am still kinda new to this and am trying to learn by example )

Thanks much!
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neuron · Advocate Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 2371

the scripts go in /home/mldonkey/.mldonkey
(the .mldonkey directory is created first time you run mldonkey, though you can just stuff the scripts there and the config files will be created in that directory when you run it).

you'll need to create the .mldonkey directory, and add the user mldonkey. (you'll also need to add the user to the cron group if you want to use crontab).

this is my crontab entry:
0-59/6 * * * * /home/mldonkey/.mldonkey/chkmldonkey &>/dev/null

kamui · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 74 Location: SoCal, USA

Yay, it worked great neuron. This seems to be alot easier but that just my 2ct. If you can't get the other script to work this one is great!

Anyway, thanks again!
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Wilhelm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 149

I saw that your script isincorporated in the ebuild now of 2.5.3. At least a slightly modified version.

Anyhow i've taken some time to get it all working and it works great as far as i can tell.

The problems i had concerning the config iles being overridden was due to the fact that i needed to stop mldonkey and remover *~ after any edit.

Hopefully it won't start spitting up problems.

Good work bushman

razamatan · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160

i can use any user instead of p2p right??
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Bushmann · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 9:42 pm Post subject:

yes you can!

you can also change the directory, so that the files are not hidden under .mldonkey
But I though that makes sense if someone has more than one p2p client, so you could have them all under /home/p2p.

To your syntax errors: I will see if I can find the mistake. I also submitted new version of the script, it will soon be included in the ebuild.

gdc34 · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 12 Location: London, UK

Hi, I'm using the script bundled with the latest ebuild (2.5.3-rc1) and I get this error:

/etc/init.d/mldonkey start
* Starting mldonkey...
renice: 1001: getpriority: No such process [ !! ]

(N.B. Obviously the first time I ran it, it also gave out the creating directory etc, but then this same error came).

Any ideas? I would be really grateful for some help.

gdc34 · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2003 Posts: 12 Location: London, UK

Ok, I've looked into it a bit more, though I'm struggling somewhat since I don't know anything about bash scripting or how linux operates (still a noob

).

When I comment out the lines to do with renice (which is presumbly non essential- although helpful) like this:

n0n · Guru Joined: 13 Jun 2002 Posts: 355

One thing which could cause problems is that if anyone's using mldonkey user authentication, the web commands won't work.

Also, it would probably make a lot more sense to use the telnet interface for sending mldonkey commands rather than burdening everything down with the web interface: