Make btsync start at boot

[aaronk]

[aaronk]

I  just completed a clean install of Ubuntu 15.10.   I did all available updates. I installed btsync  by way of the new official apt-get.  I am able to use the commands to start and stop the service.   The problem is I am trying to make it auto start.   There is an init.d  script in place that is very different from what other people are using (see above). This may be a rookie mistake but I can't find any information because of how the new be official apt-get option is.

[iswrong]

Did you try to add the script to the correct runlevels?

sudo update-rc.d btsync defaults

Since Ubuntu 15.10 has systemd, you can also use the systemd unit to automatically start Sync:

sudo systemctl enable btsync

 

[aaronk]

aaron@ubuntu:~$ sudo systemctl enable btsync
[sudo] password for aaron: 
Synchronizing state of btsync.service with SysV init with /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install...
Executing /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable btsync
The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled
using systemctl.
Possible reasons for having this kind of units are:
1) A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's
   .wants/ or .requires/ directory.
2) A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has
   a requirement dependency on it.
3) A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer,
   D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...).

[iswrong]

Did you try update-rc.d ?

[aaronk]

i tried 

sudo update-rc.d btsync defaults

[aaronk]

i am using the server version of Ubuntu 15.10. Could that have an effect on being able to use this command?

sudo systemctl enable btsync

[cjsheets]

You can create a unit file for btsync (probably should be done automatically by the deb package).

 

Create the file: /etc/systemd/system/btsync.service

Containing:

[Unit]
Description=Bittorent Sync service
After=network.target
 
[Service]
Type=forking
User=btsync
Group=btsync
ExecStart=/usr/bin/btsync
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

 

Once that file is in place enabling the service should work

sudo systemctl enable btsync

 

[Moe]

On 28.2.2016 at 3:35 AM, cjsheets said:

You can create a unit file for btsync (probably should be done automatically by the deb package).

 

Create the file: /etc/systemd/system/btsync.service

Containing:

[Unit]
Description=Bittorent Sync service
After=network.target
 
[Service]
Type=forking
User=btsync
Group=btsync
ExecStart=/usr/bin/btsync
Restart=on-abort

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

 

 

Actually that won't work 100%. You forgot to add the configuration file to the ExecStart command.

It should say this:
 

ExecStart=/usr/bin/btsync --config /etc/btsync/config.json

Otherwise btsync will create a new syncdata folder and not use any of your settings you have configured in your config file.

[aaronk]

An update to this issue. 

Moe i will give that a try. Thanks

There seems to be a confirmed bug in the official debian installation method.

 

[RomanZ]

@aaronk Fixed now. Reinstall package and systemctl enable should be working fine.

[aaronk]

@Roman Z that made it work and boot at start.

my next part I am working on is getting permissions fixed. I tried using this command hoping to get the user running the service to change to pi and received this message. 

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo systemctl --user start btsync
Failed to get D-Bus connection: Connection refused
 

Edited March 5, 2016 by aaronk

[RomanZ]

@aaronk Googling around indicates that the issue is in your stripped installation of Debian. systemctl depends on 2 other packages: libpam-systemd and dbus. Its very likely you are missing one of them and just need to install it with apt-get.

[aaronk]

@Roman Z I ran across this while i was working on this this issue. Unfortunately installing this package didnt resolve it.  I did a clean install to test this.

I do believe that a missing package could be an issue though.