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I've recently loaded BitTorrent Sync, as a way of disrtibuting files about my system, machine to machine and platform to platform. Whilst the setup is a bit obscure, it does work well.. The only snag, is that you have to execute a file (btsync), which is a local file. In my long ago, experience with UNIX, there used to be an rc file in the user environment, which would set things up at login, and to which you could add commands to launch programmes. This is absent in Mageia, as far as I can see. This is something that can be done by the user, and not neccesarlily at bootup. So a local user launch option would be entirely adequate

Should it be started together with desktop login, or also for tty login?

Thanks for the reply. I finally managed to sort the problem myself, after a bit of searching. I wrote a shell script to launch the command, , then added it to 'Autostart' in system settings>startup & shutdown. The addition was to start, automatically, a BitTorrent Sync session. It didn't seem to be adequately explained in the BitTorrent Sync setup instructions

We have it on our Cauldron repos as btsync package and it automatically starts when system boots via systemd. You may want to use our spec and source files or source rpm to build a Mageia 4 package.