I had an issue when I booted my TV laptop which is running DebianMint. The torrent program transmission would not automatically start with the torrents running. The torrent files are on an external USB harddrive so I assumed that it wasn’t mounting before the program loaded which was causing the problem. I tried putting a delay in the startup application preferences with something like this.
sleep && transmission -m
But then transmission wouldn’t load at all. I think it was an issue with the startup program killing processes that take to long, this makes sense otherwise rouge processes could make booting up a nightmare. So I created a file called transmissionstartup in /bin and called that in the startup instead of transmission itsself.
#!/bin/bash
#Starts transmission with 30 second delay to allow usb drives to mount
sleep 30
transmission-gtk -m
Thanks for the heilp!
The problem is that my transmission-daemon runs on my HTPC and I do not always boot innto X. I usually directly boot into Xbmc, but wish to have transmission-daemon to run in the background.
Maybe I can use a “sleep 120″ command in my /etc/init.d script?
Thanks again!!
Hi
I have a similar problem. running ubuntu.
I have transmission-daemon starting at boot, but it starts before my NFS mount is mounted. My startup scripts are in /etc/init.d
Can you explain a newbe how to use your script?
I also posted my problem on a other forum if you wish to read?
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=72664
Thanks!!
Hello torleif,
I wouldn’t put the script in /etc/init.d because those scripts are run as root and won’t have an xwindow. I
created a file called transmissionstartup in the /bin directory which contained the script
#!/bin/bash#Starts transmission with 30 second delay to allow usb drives to mount
sleep 30
transmission -m
Chmoded the script so it is excutable
chmod -x /bin/transmissionstartupNow when i type transmisionstartup in the terminal transmission will start with a 30 delay. I then added transmisionstartup to my startup applications which is found in the preferences menu.
I hope that explains it, if you are unsure about anything let me know