trying to autostart 2 instances of a daemon on boot

[geekness]

Im trying to autostart 2 instances of a daemon on boot. The daemon is transmission-daemon.
This is the post I followed to get the 2 separate instances working. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... st11612949
I can get both to start, but only one ("transmission-daemon"), will autostart on boot.

Im running Wheezy on an ARM box (Iomega Iconnect), accessing through SSH, Putty on windows7

This is the command I use to enable the autostart

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sudo update-rc.d transmission-daemon2 defaults

then this is the error

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root@iconnect:~# sudo update-rc.d transmission-daemon2 defaults
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: script transmission-daemon2: service transmission-daemon already provided!
insserv: exiting now!
update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header
root@iconnect:~#

This is whats inside /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon2

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nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon2

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GNU nano 2.2.6      File: /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon2          Modified

#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          transmission-daemon
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the transmission-daemon.
### END INIT INFO

NAME=transmission-daemon2
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
USER=debian-transmission
STOP_TIMEOUT=30

export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/sbin"

[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0

[ -e /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

start_daemon () {
    if [ $ENABLE_DAEMON != 1 ]; then
        log_progress_msg "(disabled)"
                log_end_msg 255 || true
    else
        start-stop-daemon --start \
        --chuid $USER \
                $START_STOP_OPTIONS \
        --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS || log_end_msg $?
                log_end_msg 0
    fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        log_daemon_msg "Starting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start_daemon
        ;;
    stop)
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT \
            --oknodo || log_end_msg $?
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
    reload)
        log_daemon_msg "Reloading bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON \
            --oknodo --signal 1 || log_end_msg $?
        log_end_msg 0

This is whats inside /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon

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nano /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon

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  GNU nano 2.2.6       File: /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon

#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          transmission-daemon
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the transmission-daemon.
### END INIT INFO

NAME=transmission-daemon
DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME
USER=debian-transmission
STOP_TIMEOUT=30

export PATH="${PATH:+$PATH:}/sbin"

[ -x $DAEMON ] || exit 0

[ -e /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME

. /lib/lsb/init-functions

start_daemon () {
    if [ $ENABLE_DAEMON != 1 ]; then
        log_progress_msg "(disabled)"
                log_end_msg 255 || true
    else
        start-stop-daemon --start \
        --chuid $USER \
                $START_STOP_OPTIONS \
        --exec $DAEMON -- $OPTIONS || log_end_msg $?
                log_end_msg 0
    fi
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        log_daemon_msg "Starting bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start_daemon
        ;;
    stop)
        log_daemon_msg "Stopping bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON --retry $STOP_TIMEOUT \
            --oknodo || log_end_msg $?
        log_end_msg 0
        ;;
    reload)
        log_daemon_msg "Reloading bittorrent daemon" "$NAME"
        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
            --exec $DAEMON \
            --oknodo --signal 1 || log_end_msg $?
        log_end_msg 0

Any help is greatly appreciated

[geekness]

Update:

Just doing some tests and I found that if I remove autostart for "transmission-daemon"

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update-rc.d -f  transmission-daemon remove

then add autostart for "transmission-daemon2"

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sudo update-rc.d transmission-daemon2 defaults

when I try to add autostart for "transmission-daemon", I get that same error

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reboot

and "transmission-daemon2" is what starts this time.

My question now is how does debian sort and read it's autostart scripts? it seems that even if the titles are similar, it rejects the script.
I tried renaming but still get the same error
Do I need to rename every file and folder that has "transmission-daemon2" to something totally different? and then re-write every script/settings file to suit?

[geekness]

I created a new script

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#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/start-tr-mv
#

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          transmission-daemon2
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start daemon at boot time
# Description:       starts transmission-daemon2.
### END INIT INFO


# Carry out specific functions when asked to by the system
case "$1" in
  start)
    echo "Starting transmission-daemon2"
    # run application you want to start
    /usr/local/bin/transmission-daemon2
    ;;
  stop)
    echo "Stopping transmission-daemon2"
    killall transmission-daemon2
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon2 {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

Then I made it executable

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chmod 755 /etc/init.d/start-tr-mv

then I tried to add it to the start list, but got the same error

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root@iconnect:~# update-rc.d start-tr-mv defaults
update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing
insserv: script transmission-daemon: service transmission-daemon already provided!
root@iconnect:~#

[geekness]

Just found this on git
https://gist.github.com/ctavan/4482825
Is there a way to start both instances of transmission with a single script?

[geekness]

OK, got it working, finally.
I needed to rename all files and folders totally so I renamed them like this

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mv /usr/bin/transmission-daemon2 /usr/bin/tv-daemon
mv /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon2 /etc/init.d/tv-daemon
mv /var/lib/transmission-daemon2 /var/lib/tv-daemon
mv /etc/transmission-daemon2 /etc/tv-daemon
mv /etc/default/transmission-daemon2 /etc/default/tv-daemon

Then I changed the script file as:

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NAME=transmission-daemon2
to
NAME=tv-daemon

but that still didn't work,
so I changed this:

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#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          transmission-daemon
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the transmission-daemon.
### END INIT INFO

to this:

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#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          tv-daemon
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the tv-daemon.
### END INIT INFO

and Voila, it's working. Im starting to think the

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# Provides:          transmission-daemon

may have been the culprit. maybe if I changed it to

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# Provides:          transmission-daemon2

it may have worked, but I think I may have tried that already with no luck. Anyway, it's working now, so im happy.
Now to install sickbeard and couch potato, then add my hard drives, then hopefully get it singing with Rasbmc.

If anybody can shed some light on any of the above, I'd love it.
Thanks.

[subhuman]

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man start-stop-daemon

you're looking at the wrong places. start-stop-daemon creates a pidfile, meaning a file which contains the pid of the process it just started. whatever name you bestow upon your pudding, it still remains a pudding.

btw.: it would suffice if you posted only the context relevant snippets of your scriptlets.

[SouzaRM]

Thank you GeekNess...

You is very good!

OK, got it working, finally.
I needed to rename all files and folders totally so I renamed them like this

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mv /usr/bin/transmission-daemon2 /usr/bin/tv-daemon
mv /etc/init.d/transmission-daemon2 /etc/init.d/tv-daemon
mv /var/lib/transmission-daemon2 /var/lib/tv-daemon
mv /etc/transmission-daemon2 /etc/tv-daemon
mv /etc/default/transmission-daemon2 /etc/default/tv-daemon

Then I changed the script file as:

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NAME=transmission-daemon2
to
NAME=tv-daemon

but that still didn't work,
so I changed this:

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#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          transmission-daemon
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the transmission-daemon.
### END INIT INFO

to this:

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#!/bin/sh -e
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          tv-daemon
# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs $network
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start or stop the tv-daemon.
### END INIT INFO

and Voila, it's working. Im starting to think the

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# Provides:          transmission-daemon

may have been the culprit. maybe if I changed it to

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# Provides:          transmission-daemon2

it may have worked, but I think I may have tried that already with no luck. Anyway, it's working now, so im happy.
Now to install sickbeard and couch potato, then add my hard drives, then hopefully get it singing with Rasbmc.

If anybody can shed some light on any of the above, I'd love it.
Thanks.