FAQ amuled
aMuled is a full featured aMule, running without any user interface (GUI). It is controlled by remote access through aMuleWeb, aMuleCMD, aMuleGUI or other ed2k utilities.
Stripped from GUI, aMuled has reduced memory and CPU requirements and it can run without X at all.
Please note: Remember not to set your max-Connections higher than 1024, since wxBase cannot handle more connections.
If you just need to run aMule on a remote server try Xvfb (see this too).
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Startup script
Here is an amuled startup script to make amuled start and stop with your computer. It is derived from the one at aMuleWeb, but follows stricter quoting rules, doesn't require a configuration file in /etc/defaults, and doesn't start a web server.
Run su, or prefix commands with sudo, to become root.
Edit the USER= line to set it to your current user (as reported by whoami).
Copy the script as /etc/init.d/amuled:
cp amuled /etc/init.d/amuled
Make it executable:
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/amuled
Set it to run at startup:
#on Debian distros: update-rc.d amuled defaults #on Red Hat distros: chkconfig --add amuled chkconfig amuled on 2 3 5 . #on a generic distro ln -s /etc/init.d/amuled /etc/rc0.d/K20amuled; ln -s /etc/init.d/amuled /etc/rc1.d/K20amuled; ln -s /etc/init.d/amuled /etc/rc6.d/K20amuled; ln -s /etc/init.d/amuled /etc/rc4.d/S20amuled ln -s /etc/init.d/amuled /etc/rc5.d/S20amuled
The script contains the following lines:
#!/bin/bash
NAME=$(basename "$0")
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/amuled
DESC=amuled
USER=g2p #A user who already ran amule once to configure it.
test -x "$DAEMON" || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
su "$USER" -c "$(printf "%q -f" "$DAEMON" )"
echo "$NAME."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
killall --quiet "$DAEMON"
echo "$NAME."
;;
restart|force-reload)
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
killall --quiet "$DAEMON"
sleep 1
su "$USER" -c "$(printf "%q -f" "$DAEMON" )"
;;
*)
printf "Usage: %q {start|stop|restart|force-reload}\n" "$0" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
Startup script for RedHat (Fedora, RHEL, Centos, SME7, ...)
Run su, or prefix commands with sudo, to become root.
Edit the USER= line to set it to your current user (as reported by whoami).
Copy the script as /etc/init.d/amuled:
cp amuled /etc/init.d/amuled
Make it executable:
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/amuled
Then register the service :
chkconfig --add amuled
The alternate script contains the following lines :
#!/bin/sh
# aMule - script shell pour l'arret/demarrage du service
# description: amule p2p download service
# chkconfig: 345 97 03
# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
USER=p2p #A user who already ran amule once to configure it.
RETVAL=0
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting amule daemon: "
daemon --user=$USER amuled -f
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch /var/lock/subsys/amule
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping amule daemon: "
killproc amuled
RETVAL=$?
rm -f /var/lock/subsys/amule && rm -f /var/lock/amule
echo
;;
status)
status amuled
RETVAL=$?
;;
restart|force-reload)
$0 stop
$0 start
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
printf "Usage: %q {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}\n" "$0" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit $RETVAL
Runscript for Gentoo
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
NAME=$(basename "$0")
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/amuled
DESC=amuled
USER=foobar
depend()
{
need net
}
start()
{
ebegin "Starting $DESC"
su "$USER" -c "$(printf "%q -f" "$DAEMON" )"
eend $?
}
stop()
{
ebegin "Stopping $DESC"
killall --quiet "$DAEMON"
eend $?
}
restart()
{
svc_stop
svc_start
}
Script for SUSE ditribution (Novell SUSE Linux, openSUSE)
#!/bin/bash
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: amuled
# Required-Start: $ALL
# Should-Start: $ALL
# Required-Stop: $ALL
# Should-Stop: $ALL
# Default-Start: 3 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6
# Short-Description: aMule Daemon
# Description: Start aMuled, Daemon for aMule
### END INIT INFO
NAME=$(basename "$0")
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
DAEMON=/usr/local/bin/amuled
DESC=amuled
USER=username #A user who already ran amule once to configure it.
test -x "$DAEMON" || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting $DESC: "
su "$USER" -c "$(printf "%q -f" "$DAEMON" )"
echo "$NAME."
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "
killall --quiet "$DAEMON"
echo "$NAME."
;;
restart|force-reload)
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
killall --quiet "$DAEMON"
sleep 1
su "$USER" -c "$(printf "%q -f" "$DAEMON" )"
;;
*)
printf "Usage: %q {start|stop|restart|force-reload}\n" "$0" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
This script can be inserted in the startup list by making it executable and by running the command insserv (see man page for more informaion on insserv).
