gavin

Hi again, So unfortunately there is still an issue. But I'll start again. System: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS x64. Config: See bottom of this post. Error: None, but the instance fails to start. Commands run (after sudo service btsync stop): --------------------------------- gavin@machine:/etc/btsync$ sudo service btsync start * Starting P2P file synchronisation daemon(s)... * Autostarting btsync instance 'debconf-default' [ OK ] * Autostarting btsync instance 'gav' gavin@machine:/etc/btsync$ gavin@machine:/etc/btsync$ ps aux | grep bt root 27940 0.1 0.0 261560 2028 ? Sl 15:07 0:00 /usr/lib/btsync/btsync-daemon --nodaemon --config /etc/btsync/debconf-default.conf gavin 28011 0.0 0.0 13584 920 pts/6 S+ 15:08 0:00 grep --color=auto bt ------------------------- It is timing out in start_btsync and generating the error: log_error "Failed to start $NAME instance $BASENAME - please check the configuration file $CONFIG_DIR/$CONFFILE" although I don't see an error on the commandline without altering the /etc/init.d/btsync script. At this point I'm not sure what is wrong so if someone could let me know what the issue might be that would be great. Thanks, Gavin Config script: //!/usr/lib/btsync/btsync-daemon --config // // DAEMON_UID=gavin // // { "device_name": "Gav - Default Instance", "storage_path" : "/var/run", "listening_port" : 0, "check_for_updates" : false, "use_upnp" : false, "download_limit" : 0, "upload_limit" : 0, "disk_low_priority" : true, "lan_encrypt_data" : true, "lan_use_tcp" : false, "rate_limit_local_peers" : false, "folder_rescan_interval" : 600, "webui" : { "listen" : "0.0.0.0:8887", "login" : "admin", "password" : "*****" } }

Hi tuxpoldo, It seems it was an error on my side (an instance of btsync didn't get killed somehow when I removed and reinstalled from synaptic). Killing this instance and stopping and starting the service fixed the issue. Sorry for wasting your time, and thanks for the quick response. Gavin

Possibly disregard the above, seems changing the script didn't make things work either, although I could get it to create the pid file in the correct place (but then btsync still wouldn't launch). Anyway, for now I have gone back to letting it just be root, which while sub-optimal, at least works.

Hi, I've been trying to start btsync as a non-root user. However, I kept getting the "unable to open pidfile '/var/run/btsync.gav.pid' for writing (Permission denied)". Since my user does not have permission to write there this makes sense. So I changed the "storage_path" variable in the config file which should (I belive) fix the issue. However, this did not work and after looking at the /etc/init.d/btsync it seems the path for the pid (/var/run) is hard-coded into the "start_btsync" method and elsewhere (e.g. "test_running"). Is there a way around this, or is this a current limitation of the script? I'm going to change the script manually, but would prefer a way that will not break on future updates. Thanks, Gavin