SysV Init Support

[Ryushin]

Please remove the systemd dependency for the deb packages and add sysvinit support. Those of us the run Debian with sysvinit (still supported) or Devuan can't use the packages.

[Da-Geek]

Just a Suggestion:- Another Option to run the RustDesk Server would be to use the containerised version as documented https://rustdesk.com/docs/en/self-host/install/#install-your-own-server-with-docker-compose

This would solve the dependency issue by not using the .deb at all.

[Ryushin]

The zip file has the binaries. I'll create init files and post them here. I guess all that would need to be done is to remove the systemd dependency from the deb package and include the sysvinit files in the package.

[rustdesk]

create init files

Go ahead, 👍

[Ryushin]

Details: Dowloaded the zip file with just the binaries. Extracted them in /opt/rustdesk. Created a local user account called rustdesk and changed the owner and group of /opt/rustdesk to the rustdesk user. Logs are stored in /var/log/rustdesk.

Init Scripts seem to work fine for start, stop, status, and restart.

hbbs SysV Init Script:

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          hbbs
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $networking $local_fs
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: RustDesk Signal Server
# Description:       RustDesk Signal Server.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Ryushin
#

# Do NOT "set -e"

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
DESC="RustDesk Signal Server"
NAME=hbbs
DAEMON=/opt/rustdesk/hbbs
DAEMON_ARGS=""
START_DIR="/opt/rustdesk"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
DAEMON_USER=rustdesk
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/hbbs
LOG=/var/log/rustdesk/hbbs.log

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) to ensure that this file is present
# and status_of_proc is working.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
    echo "Starting $DESC... "
        start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $DAEMON_USER --user $DAEMON_USER --make-pidfile --background \
        --pidfile $PIDFILE --chdir $START_DIR --verbose --startas $DAEMON --no-close --output $LOG -- \
                $DAEMON_ARGS 
}

#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
        # Return
        #   0 if daemon has been stopped
        #   1 if daemon was already stopped
        #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
        #   other if a failure occurred
        start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE
        RETVAL="$?"
        [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
    echo
        # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
        rm -f $PIDFILE
        return "$RETVAL"
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        do_start
        ;;
  stop)
        do_stop
        ;;
  status)
       status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" "$DAEMON_ARGS" && exit 0 || exit $?
       ;;
  restart)
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
    echo
        do_stop
        case "$?" in
          0|1)
                do_start
                case "$?" in
                        0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                        1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
                        *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
                esac
                ;;
          *)
                # Failed to stop
                log_end_msg 1
                ;;
        esac
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart}" >&2
        exit 3
        ;;
esac

hbbr SysV Init Script:

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          hbbr
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog $networking $local_fs
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: RustDesk Relay Server
# Description:       RustDesk Relay Server.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Ryushin
#

# Do NOT "set -e"

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin
DESC="RustDesk Relay Server"
NAME=hbbr
DAEMON=/opt/rustdesk/hbbr
DAEMON_ARGS=""
START_DIR="/opt/rustdesk"
PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
DAEMON_USER=rustdesk
SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/hbbr
LOG=/var/log/rustdesk/hbbr.log

# Read configuration variable file if it is present
[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) to ensure that this file is present
# and status_of_proc is working.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
    echo "Starting $DESC... "
        start-stop-daemon --start --chuid $DAEMON_USER --user $DAEMON_USER --make-pidfile --background \
        --pidfile $PIDFILE --chdir $START_DIR --verbose --startas $DAEMON --output $LOG -- \
                $DAEMON_ARGS 
}

#
# Function that stops the daemon/service
#
do_stop()
{
        # Return
        #   0 if daemon has been stopped
        #   1 if daemon was already stopped
        #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
        #   other if a failure occurred
        start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE
        RETVAL="$?"
        [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
    echo
        # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
        rm -f $PIDFILE
        return "$RETVAL"
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        do_start
        ;;
  stop)
        do_stop
        ;;
  status)
       status_of_proc -p "$PIDFILE" "$DAEMON" "$DAEMON_ARGS" && exit 0 || exit $?
       ;;
  restart)
        log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
    echo
        do_stop
        case "$?" in
          0|1)
                do_start
                case "$?" in
                        0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
                        1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
                        *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
                esac
                ;;
          *)
                # Failed to stop
                log_end_msg 1
                ;;
        esac
        ;;
  *)
        echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart}" >&2
        exit 3/var/log/rustdesk/*.log {
    daily
    missingok
    rotate 14
    notifempty
    create 640 rustdesk rustdesk
    sharedscripts
    prerotate
    /etc/init.d/hbbr stop
    /etc/init.d/hbbs stop
    endscript
    postrotate
    /etc/init.d/hbbs start
    /etc/init.d/hbbr start
    endscript
}
        ;;
esac

Log Rotate config. To be place in /etc/logrotate.d/:

/var/log/rustdesk/*.log {
    daily
    missingok
    rotate 14
    notifempty
    create 640 rustdesk rustdesk
    sharedscripts
    prerotate
    /etc/init.d/hbbr stop
    /etc/init.d/hbbs stop
    endscript
    postrotate
    /etc/init.d/hbbs start
    /etc/init.d/hbbr start
    endscript
}

HBBS and HBBR daemon improvement requests: Add the --daemon option so program can fork into the background. Add the --pid option so the program can create a PID at a location of the background process. Add the --log option to send the daemon's logs to a specific location.