restartd + screen + rtorrent

RoboCot

Do you know how to configure restartd to check and launch rtorrent nested onto a screen session?

Thanks!

yomero

I don't think you need that restartd stuff...
My rtorrent never has crashed.

Edit. Otherwhise... if you are paranoic, you can do an script in the way..

while true
rtorrent
done

And launch it from screen.

djvdorp

nice one @yomero

William

i would rather use nohup, more flexible than screen.

RoboCot

Thank you all for you answers.

peepingnerd

i finally made it for @robocot, here's how i did:

/etc/restartd.conf

dummylabel "/path/to/rtorrentstart.sh"  "/bin/su -c \"/bin/bash -r -c 'screen -a -A -d -m -S rtorrent /path/to/rtorrentstart.sh\'" username"  ""

/path/to/rtorrentstart.sh (usually something like /home/username/rtorrentstart.sh)

#!/bin/bash
rtorrent

restard matches the string you set against process names
rtorrent is listed just as "rtorrent", if you have more rtorrent's instance (one by user, ie), you need different processname to match the right one, so the need for the shell script wrapper

just one bug: with screen -d -m (start detached session), i found "C-a", screen's default command character, intercepts any ^char command you send to rtorrent (it doesn't happen with standard screen session)

I've tried to map command character in screen to something else, with -e options, with no luck at the moment

using an ui front-end for rtorrent "solves" the issue