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smallst

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Registered: 2016-07-26

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qbittorrent-nox always change /var/lib/qbittorrent folder to qbt user

i use qbittorrent-nox@user.service to run qbittorrent-nox with specific user instead of default qbt user, but on every pacman update the download folder /var/lib/qbittorrent changes the user:group to qbt, which is really annoying.

how can I make the folder user/group don't change?

V1del

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Re: qbittorrent-nox always change /var/lib/qbittorrent folder to qbt user

Mask /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/qbittorrent.conf via a /dev/null symlink in /etc/tmpfiles.d/qbittorrent.conf -- though it feels somewhat weird to use the system path when not wanting to use the corresponding user as well, vut you'll have your reasons.

Last edited by V1del (2025-05-14 17:08:03)

smallst

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Re: qbittorrent-nox always change /var/lib/qbittorrent folder to qbt user

oh thank you! very helpful

ya it's weired to use /var/lib path when I run qb as user.. but you know in QB 4 it doesn't have default user and every package uses /var/lib path so in order to make different package uses same folder I change the group and permissions to /var/lib and it's easier than change every package to use home path.. (and, I use different HDD for /var to allow it stores more data) so .... when qb upgrade to 5 and create the new user, (and overwrite the permission) , things ruins

V1del

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Re: qbittorrent-nox always change /var/lib/qbittorrent folder to qbt user

If you consider this [SOLVED] please consider marking it as such by editing the title in your first post (might have to shorten it a little)