Error when rtorrent starts

[skelosParticipant]

I saw this error many times in my original cubox and also in my new 4×4.
Many times when Geexbox try to start rtorrent this is the error generated:

root@geexbox:/etc/systemd/system# journalctl -f -u rtorrent
-- Logs begin at Thu 1970-01-01 01:00:03 BST. --
Jan 01 01:00:06 geexbox runrtorrent[280]: mkdir: can't create directory '/rtorre
nt/': No such file or directory
Jan 01 01:00:06 geexbox runrtorrent[280]: mkdir: can't create directory '/rtorre
nt/': No such file or directory
Aug 05 22:38:29 geexbox stoprtorrent[1059]: kill: you need to specify whom to ki
ll
Aug 05 22:38:29 geexbox systemd[1]: rtorrent.service: control process exited, co
de=exited status=1
Aug 05 22:38:29 geexbox systemd[1]: Unit rtorrent.service entered failed state.

So, I purpose to modify stoprtorrent file as:

#!/bin/sh
# find pid of top level instance
kill <code>/usr/bin/screen -d | grep -o "[0-9]*\.rtorrent"|cut -f1 -d'.'</code>

into (same file may substitute runrtorrent and stoprtorrent)

#!/bin/bash
screen -wipe
sess=''
sess=$(screen -ls | grep rtorrent | cut -d'.' -f 1)
re='^[0-9]+$'
if ! [[ $(echo $sess) =~ $re ]] ; then
        echo "rtorrent is powered off"
        systemctl stop rtorrent && systemctl start rtorrent
else
        echo  "rtorrent is powered on"
        kill <code>/usr/bin/screen -d | grep -o "[0-9]*\.rtorrent"|cut -f1 -d'.'</code>
fi

Advantages:
cleaning screen session using wipe, if there is at least one dead rtorrent session this clean up
try to get screen rtorrent session number
if powered off stop && start (restart not ever works fine)
if powered on kill screen session (may be optimize the code using $sess vaqriable containing screen rtorrent session number)

[tomlohaveModerator]

Hi Skelos,

mkdir: can’t create directory ‘/rtorre
nt/': No such file or directory

It’s a little suspicious, can you check why you have this problem ?
Anyway , if you think your approach is better
please, submit your modifications with a patch or send them to me.
( I have no problem with rtorrent since … and I use transmission)

# systemctl status rtorrent
rtorrent.service - rtorrent daemon
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/rtorrent.service; disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2015-06-23 15:53:20 BST; 1 months 13 days ago
  Process: 209 ExecStart=/usr/bin/runrtorrent (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 209 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/rtorrent.service
           ├─349 /usr/bin/SCREEN -dmS rtorrent rtorrent -n -o import=/etc/rtorrent.rc
           └─350 rtorrent -n -o import=/etc/rtorrent.rc

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