Some Questions Regarding Bittorrent Sync

[smeerbartje]

I have a home server running Ubuntu 12.04. I have installed the latest BTsync by doing the following:

• Downloaded the i386 version
  
• Extracted it and placed the executable into my /usr/bin directory
  
• Created a dump by using the --dump-sample-config parameter
  
• My sync.config file can be found below
  

Then I started btsync with the following command: ./btsync --config ./sync.conf --nodaemon

It's working fine, the GUI can be reached on port 8888 and I'm able to create some shared folders. So far so good Now my two questions are:

• How can I make sure the btsync app is running as a service under my own user? As said before, I'm running Ubuntu server. I don't want to run the btsync daemon under root, as I want all the files to be created under my own user.
  
• Where does btsync deamon stores it's shared-folder settings?
  

My config file

{ 

  "device_name": "Server",

  "listening_port" : 0,

  "storage_path" : "/smb/btsync/.sync",

  "pid_file" : "/smb/btsync/btsync.pid",

  "check_for_updates" : true,

  "use_upnp" : false,

  "download_limit" : 0,

  "upload_limit" : 0, 

  "webui" :

  {

    "listen" : "0.0.0.0:8888",

    "login" : "xxxxxxxx",

    "password" : "xxxxxxxx"

  }

[nils]

 

 

How can I make sure the btsync app is running as a service under my own user? As said before, I'm running Ubuntu server. I don't want to run the btsync daemon under root, as I want all the files to be created under my own user.

Use the ubuntu/debian packages, which come with init scripts and options on which user is running the btsync service.

 

 

Where does btsync deamon stores it's shared-folder settings?

in your config:

 

 

"storage_path" : "/smb/btsync/.sync",