Very quick question about Deluge Daemon

[COmputoman]

Hey there guys, I have a quick and simple question. Hope you all can help.

I have just installed deluge on my debian 8 (jessie) machine using the simple apt-get install deluge command.

When I went to go set it up as a service using the instructions here (http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/User ... buntuInitd) I noticed that there was already an init.d script setup, and a user had been created (debian-deluged) to run the software. I also noticed that the config files had been placed in /var/lib/deluged/config . I went ahead and ditched my plan to create the init script and just enabled the existing one using the ENABLE_DELUGED=1 switch in /etc/default/deluged. Is it normal for deluge to create the user and setup the service? What is the link above for if Deluge does it automatically? Thanks for the advice!

-Ben

[Cas]

It's simply included in the Deluge package provided by debian.

[COmputoman]

It's simply included in the Deluge package provided by debian.

I'm a bit of a Lunux novice, but are you saying that since I downloaded it from the Debian repositories it would include the startup service, whereas, the one provided here on the downloads page is more generic and if installed on a different flavour of linux, might need to be launched using a different method than init.d ? Thanks for the reply!

-Ben

[bro]

Startup services are distro dependent, so yes.

[COmputoman]

Awesome. That's all very straight forward and makes sense. One last question: how can I find the password for the user "debian-deluged" (which runs the daemon) that was created at install?

[bro]

You need to check the scripts that created the user on install.