I want to run a Windows application (uTorrent) at boot, but in run level 3.
I have it working with Wine and configured it to use the web interface through it’s GUI with init 5. I then went to init 3 and used wine “C:\Program Files\uTorrent\utorrent.exe” to launch it through terminal.
It loaded and the webui was working fine from remote computers, but there was a lot of text displayed and I couldn’t type any commands after it.
My first question is how can I get it to suppress that text and to allow me to type commands after.
My second question is how can I get it to launch when I boot suse at run level 3.
First question: redirect STDERR and STDOUT to /dev/null when you launch it:
wine ‘c:\whatever\file.exe’ >/dev/null 2>&1
As a note it should be mentioned that you CAN keep typing things and
they will still run… it’s just a mess to input/output data with all
that nonsense going by.
Second, create a script with the command you use to launch the program
above and put it in /etc/init.d (you’ll need ‘root’ privileges to write
in that directory) being sure to make it executable. Create a softlink
to that from /etc/init.d/rc3.d. The first file would be something like:
#the following should be on one line:
ln -s /etc/init.d/yourWineProgramFileName
/etc/init.d/rc3.d/S99yourWineProgramFileName
Good luck.
mattm591 wrote:
| I want to run a Windows application (uTorrent) at boot, but in run level
| 3.
|
| I have it working with Wine and configured it to use the web interface
| through it’s GUI with init 5. I then went to init 3 and used wine
| “C:\Program Files\uTorrent\utorrent.exe” to launch it through
| terminal.
|
| It loaded and the webui was working fine from remote computers, but
| there was a lot of text displayed and I couldn’t type any commands
| after it.
|
| My first question is how can I get it to suppress that text and to
| allow me to type commands after.
|
| My second question is how can I get it to launch when I boot suse at
| run level 3.
|
| Thanks,
|
| Matt
|
|
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Thanks for the reply, but a new problem has arisen.
Before I’m not sure how I got uTorrent working in terminal without a gui window loading, but it won’t work anymore.
I now get a message when I load utorrent in init 3 saying “Application tried to create a window but no driver could be loaded. Make sure your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set correctly”.
Any ideas how I can force it to load and ignore that it has no window to show the display.
I’m not sure if what you are trying to do will work as your application is looking for a screen output… and the output for it is only available through X…
These days Wine HQ has a forum too… they might be able to give a solution for this.
If you dont mind using a native torrent client, I can recomment transmission as a good gui and command line client.
By the way running a windows programm in command line, I doubt that it will work, because the windows shell itself is the gui. But you can proof me wrong here.
What is that killer feature of utorrent that you want to run it on linux ? There are a bazillion native clients out there like:
I looked into Linux native clients and the reason I want uTorrent is the webui, although I suppose I could use ssh to contorl something like rTorrent, but they also don’t support scheduling download/upload speeds which is something that I would want and I also found (rTorrent the one I tried) very hard to use.
I asked on the wine forums and was told to use xvfb but I don’t know how this works.
Again, I think there has to be a command line argument that uTorrent will take to tell it to not start in a window. You might alternately play around with starting an x-server on an alternate display, I used to do that sort of thing on AIX, so that I could connect to certain apps remotely.