Updated Running qBittorrent without X server (WebUI only systemd service setup, Ubuntu 15.04 or newer) (markdown)

Agneev Mukherjee 2021-04-10 20:35:20 +05:30
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@ -121,23 +121,18 @@ Then run `sudo systemctl daemon-reload` to update the service manager.
The qBittorrent service is now ready to be used. To start the service on system boot, refer to the next section.
# Controlling the service
### Controlling the service
- start the service: `sudo systemctl start qbittorrent`
- check service status: `systemctl status qbittorrent`
- stop the service: `sudo systemctl stop qbittorrent`
- enable/disable it to start up on boot: `sudo systemctl enable qbittorrent`
- this should output something like the following:
```txt
Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/qbittorrent.service to /etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent.service.
```
- the result of the previous command can be reverted with: `sudo systemctl disable qbittorrent`.
- Start the service: `sudo systemctl start qbittorrent`
- Check service status: `systemctl status qbittorrent`
- Stop the service: `sudo systemctl stop qbittorrent`
- Enable it to start up on boot: `sudo systemctl enable qbittorrent`
- To disable: `sudo systemctl disable qbittorrent`.
It simply disables automatic startup of the qBittorrent service.
Refer to the `systemd` documentation to know of more operations you can do on services.
# Logging
### Logging
qBittorrent will still log most interesting stuff to its usual logging directory. In this example, this would be `/home/qbtuser/.local/share/data/qBittorrent/logs/`.
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For more information on how to use and customize `systemd` logging, refer to its documentation.
# `systemd` service dependencies (optional)
### `systemd` service dependencies (optional)
Let's say that you've configured `qbittorrent-nox` to download files to a directory that is in another drive, for example, mounted on `/media/user/volume`.