Resilio Sync per-user launcher

This is a small script to run Resilio Sync (formerly Bittorrent Sync) as an unprivileged user using initscript-like syntax.

Hint: Add btsync.user start to the list of programs to run on login (and btsync.user stop to the list of programs to run on logout if your DE supports it to have Resilio Sync running while you're logged in).

NOTE: For historic reasons the script is called btsync.user, if installed through the makefile an additional rslsync.user symbolic link will be created.

NOTE: The /sbin/start-stop-daemon script and the jq program are required to run this script. Additionally xdg-open is used to launch a browser if the webui parameter is passed.

Usage

$ btsync.user start

Starts the Resilio Sync client in the background.

If no configuration is present, creation is handled by Resilio Sync itself.

The script uses ~/.config/resilio-sync as configuration directory.

$ btsync.user stop

Stops a running instance.

$ btsync.user status

Displays running status, including the HTTP address of the Web UI.

$ btsync.user webui

Opens the Web UI on the default browser (using xdg-open).
Alternatively you may use the companion btsync.gui script to load the Web UI in Chromium's app mode.

Example output

$ btsync.user start
Starting /usr/bin/rslsync...
By using this application, you agree to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use and End User License Agreement.
https://www.resilio.com/legal/privacy
https://www.resilio.com/legal/terms-of-use
https://www.resilio.com/legal/eula

Resilio Sync forked to background. pid = 12345

$ btsync.user stop
Stopped /usr/bin/rslsync (pid 12345).

$ btsync.user status
Resilio Sync running with pid 25308
    Web UI listening on https://127.0.0.1:7777 0.0.0.0:7777

Per-user configuration

Resilio Sync includes a script to generate per-user configuration, usually at /etc/resilio-sync/init_user_config.sh.

It can be used to e.g. adjust the Web UI port.

When run without an existing configuration the aforementioned script will be invoked.

btsync.gui

Also included here is the btsync.gui.bash script which will try to open the WebUI in a browser in app mode.

Unlike btsync.user webui, which uses xdg-open to launch the user's default browser, btsync.gui will try to use one of the known derivatives of Chromium (currently Chromium, Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge), since those have an app mode.

As with btsync.user, if installing with the makefile, a corresponding rslsync.gui will be installed too.