AndrePuls
commented
3 years ago these options can be set from each users' ./.rtorrent.rc Actually, rtorrent is looking for the config-file in the user's home directory: ~/.rtorrent.rc
And yes, by default, each user needs it's own file.
If you want to load a different one, you have to start rtorrent like this:
rtorrent -o import=/path/to/.rtorrent.rc
However, I haven't found a way to use (bash-)variables, so something like:
method.insert = cfg.basedir, private|const|string, (cat,"/mnt/largedisk/$USER/rtorrent/")
will NOT work.
My suggestion:
Use this line in your /path/to/global/.rtorrent.rc
method.insert = cfg.basedir, private|const|string, (cat,"/mnt/largedisk/%%USER%%/")
and start rtorrent like this:
cat /path/to/global/.rtorrent.rc | sed "s/%%USER%%/$USER/g" > ~/.rtorrent.rc ; rtorrent ; rm ~/.rtorrent.rc
It may not be the most elegant solution, but it does what you want.
Does it help?
Hello,
I'm looking for a global option to set the base directory, out of the default home directory for each user, to something like /mnt/largedisk/ (and store the relevant data for each user of rtorrent under this).
As I understood, these options can be set from each users' ./.rtorrent.rc. But I don't want to do this for every existing user's config individually. Also, I would like to achieve that for every new user added, the modified default directory should already be set in it's config file that is created...
What I don't understand, is that there is this configuration template, that can be pulled from Github, and you can set all relevant baseline config, in my example the home directory from /home/$username/... to /mnt/largedisk/$username/... . But where does it need to be stored on the local system, from which all new user's configuration is based upon this template file? Do I need to edit an existing user's config, and copy it where? Is there a "global" .rtorrent.rc (in the root namespace) somewhere already that I can edit?
Thank you,