Systemd

Systemd service

Location for the systemd service file:

/etc/systemd/system/qbittorrent.service

Modify the path to the binary and your local username.

[Unit]
Description=qBittorrent-nox service
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=exec
User=qbtuser
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/qbittorrent-nox
Restart=on-failure
SyslogIdentifier=qbittorrent-nox

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

After any changes to the services reload using this command.

systemctl daemon-reload

Now you can enable the service

systemctl enable --now qbittorrent.service

Now you can use these commands

systemctl stop qbittorrent
systemctl start qbittorrent
systemctl restart qbittorrent

Systemd user service

You can also use a local systemd service.

~/.config/systemd/user/qbittorrent.service

You can use this configuration with no modification required.

[Unit]
Description=qbittorrent
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target nss-lookup.target

[Service]
Type=exec
ExecStart=%h/bin/qbittorrent-nox
Restart=on-failure
SyslogIdentifier=qbittorrent-nox

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

After any changes to the services reload using this command.

systemctl --user daemon-reload

Now you can enable the service

systemctl --user enable --now qbittorrent

Now you can use these commands

systemctl --user stop qbittorrent
systemctl --user start qbittorrent
systemctl --user restart qbittorrent