When USER changed in /etc/conf.d/rtorrent daemon can't start. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rtorrent emerged with USE="daemon xmlrpc" 2. created user rtorrent 3. in /etc/conf.d/rtorrent USER set to rtorrent Actual Results: "/etc/init.d/rtorrentd start" will starts but application fails immediatly. Expected Results: rtorrent works Please replace /etc/init.d/rtorrentd with something like this. #!/sbin/runscript # Copyright 1999-2011 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-p2p/rtorrent/files/rtorrentd.init,v 1.8 2011/11/07 15:46:30 darkside Exp $ depend() { use net ypbind nis after slapd mysqld postgresql } start() { ebegin "Starting rtorrent $PWHOME" env TERM="xterm" \ start-stop-daemon \ --start \ --make-pidfile \ --pidfile /run/rtorrentd.pid \ --background \ --name rtorrent \ --exec /usr/bin/screen -- -D -m -S rtorrentd su -c /usr/bin/rtorrent eend $? } stop() { ebegin "Stopping rtorrent" pppid=`cat /var/run/rtorrentd.pid` ppid=`ps --ppid $pppid -o pid | grep -v PID | tail -n1` pid=`ps --ppid $ppid -o pid | grep -v PID | tail -n1` echo "$pid" > /run/rtorrentd-real.pid start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 15 \ --pidfile /run/rtorrentd-real.pid eend $? }
Is this still valid? looks like the current init script should work, it has the proper user stuff in it. please re-open if this is still a problem.
