How to start, stop and restart rtorrent?

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Solution 1

To start rtorrent, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

rtorrent

To stop Ctrl+D To quit Ctrl+q

The above commands you do after pressing Enter, in the rtorrent window.

For more information see the output of:

rtorrent -h

and/or see Using rtorrent like a pro

Solution 2

The accepted answer is correct but does not specify how to perform a "safe" shutdown of the rtorrent service with a systemctl service script.

Most existing answers or scripts "kill" either the screen session or the rtorrent process itself. In doing so, they send a SIGINT (2)or SIGQUIT (3) signal which stops/kills the rtorrent process. The drawback is that typically the lock-file of rtorrent is not deleted because rtorrent was not shut down properly. Consequently, the next start of rtorrent would fail because of the persistent lock file.

Taking a look at the source code of rtorrent shows that it expects a SIGTERM (15). Hence, considering a systemctl service script the stop command could look like:

ExecStop=/usr/bin/kill -s 15 \`pidof rtorrent`

If pidof is not available you can also use something like:

ps -A | grep "rtorrent" | awk '{print $1}'

ps list the current processes
grep extracts the rtorrent process particulars
awk selects the pid and displays it to stdout

In case you need to wait until shutdown is complete, you can use killall -w. Note that:

killall may wait forever if the signal was ignored, had no effect, or if the process stays in zombie state (source: man killall).

Alpaslan

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Alpaslan almost 2 years
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```
"English       ,Spanish         ,Eastern Japanese          "
"English,Spanish,Eastern Japanese"
```
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- Admin almost 11 years
  
  have you tried sudo service start rtorrent?
- Admin almost 11 years
  
  sudo service rtorrent start that is, but yes, I've tried that. It just outputs rtorrent: unrecognized service. If I write sudo service rto and press tab it completes to rtorrentInit.sh. I don't know what that is, but I remember (from a guide that is long gone far off into the interwebs) that I wrote rtorrent and stop, but not in which order and whether there is another word in between. I did not write rtorrentInit.sh that first time.
- Admin almost 11 years
  
  Yeah, Thats what I meant. Have a look here: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Dedicated Server rTorrent. The last 7-8 steps are about installing and starting rtorrent. Maybe it can shed some light.
- Admin almost 11 years
  
  I've already read that from top to bottom. But thank you anyways. For the moment I can get around with screen and just jump into rtorrent and quit from in there, but I'll leave this thread open if anyone happens to know the answer.
lindhe almost 11 years

This is the correct answer. I am afraid that I might have mixed up the instructions for this program with some other program, so exactly what I was looking for probably does not exist. I apologize for the trouble, but hope someone else will have use of this thread.
Alpaslan almost 9 years

Works like a charm. Much appreciated
Wiktor Stribiżew almost 9 years

Like question, like answer :)
David Foerster almost 8 years

kill -s 15 `pidof rtorrent` could be more simply killall rtorrent (15 or SIGTERM is the default signal sent by kill and killall).
David Foerster almost 8 years

Also, where in signal_handler.cc do you see that rtorrent expects SIGTERM to terminate itself gracefully? I only see signal generic signal handler management code but no actual signal handlers.
Cbhihe almost 8 years

Should not that be: /usr/bin/kill -n 15 `pidof rtorrent` or /usr/bin/kill -s SIGTERM \$(pidof rtorrent) ? You're mixing up signal names and numbers. -- From man kill, kill -l will actually give you the list of signal names and corresponding signal codes. -- Also note that although back ticks, as in `cmd`, are not officially deprecated, I have read that $(cmd) is actually favored as clearer.
Zanna almost 7 years

Don't forget about pgrep :) The command pgrep rtorrent returns just the PID, so no need for piping or parsing
Skippy le Grand Gourou about 5 years

It's worth mentioning that it can take a while for rtorrent to close all files and exit after Ctrl+q — it doesn't mean it wasn't the right combination.