Daemon not closing at shutdown

Question

Hello,
I've created a rc.d script to run rtorrent at boot. Please, note that i don't know programing, so the script is poor, but at least, it does what i want:
#!/bin/bash
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
USER="theuser"
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting rtorrent"
su -c "screen -S rtorrent -md /usr/bin/rtorrent &" $USER
stat_done
stop)
stat_busy "Stopping rtorrent"
PID=`pidof -o %PPID /usr/bin/rtorrent`
kill -s INT $PID
stat_done
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 5
$0 start
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
exit 0
I've put it in the rc.conf file, so starts at boot with the line "Starting rtorrent...". Nice. But, when i halt or reboot the system, there is no line saying "Stopping rtorrent". Why?
Thanks!!

Answer 1

pressh wrote:I think because the daemon is not explicitly added with an add_daemon line in the script.
Try to use one of the scripts already in /etc/rc.d and modify it to do what you want (some are more basic than others so probably you want to use those to start with)
Thanks, I'll try tomorrow this way:
#!/bin/bash
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
USER="theuser"
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting rtorrent"
su -c "screen -S rtorrent -md /usr/bin/rtorrent &" $USER
add_daemon rtorrentd
stat_done
stop)
stat_busy "Stopping rtorrent"
PID=`pidof -o %PPID /usr/bin/rtorrent`
kill -s INT $PID
rm_daemon rtorrentd
stat_done
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 5
$0 start
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
exit 0
Bye!
Last edited by dienadel (2008-05-05 21:42:43)