Debian SysVinit Script

[typomedia]

I am wrong here, but I have a SysVinit Script for Debian :)

https://gist.github.com/typomedia/3fe16c0e8214ce60b0b2

[AudriusButkevicius]

I don't think this does everything the monitor process does, so it's fairly racy by relying on pid files.

[calmh]

It looks like it launches syncthing with the monitor process, and as init scripts goes it's among the least horrible I've seen. It could potentially live in etc/ somewhere. Pull request?

[georgespatton]

Should we put this in etc/linux-sysv directory perhaps?

[mjk-gh]

Just wanted to let you guys know that the existence of above SysV init
script was very helpful for someone installing syncthing in Devuan
(SystemD-less Debian fork).

After ...

• saving above script as /etc/init.d/syncthing
• executing as root:
  • chmod 755 /etc/init.d/syncthing
  • adduser syncthing
  • update-rc.d syncthing defaults

... syncthing seems to work perfectly.

[phloggu]

Relay Server is missing the System V init script too. It would be nice if startup-scripts for different init systems would get packaged, as mentioned above, Devuan users e.g. rely on that.

The relay server is a bit more complicated than the syncthing client, because it might need an iptables port redirection. I've tried to script this; it runs for me. If it helps anyone, find syncthing-relaysrv_sysv-init.tar.gz for download to use as a starting point.

The init script uses pipexec and is logrotate safe. Use /etc/default/syncthing-relaysrv for configuration.

[ecxod]

• saving above script as /etc/init.d/syncthing

• executing as root:

  • chmod 755 /etc/init.d/syncthing
  • adduser syncthing
  • update-rc.d syncthing defaults

works perfectly