安装Dropbox

$ emerge net-misc/dropbox -av

运行Dropbox，并按设置向导进行配置

$ drobox

编写启动脚本(/etc/init.d/dropbox)

#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, v2 or later
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-fs/dropbox/files/dropbox.init-1.0,v 1.4 2007/04/04 13:35:25 cardoe Exp $

DROPBOX_USERS="will"
DROPBOX_INSTALL_DIR="/opt/dropbox"
NICENESS=5

depend() {
    need localmount net
    after bootmisc
}

start() {
    ebegin "Starting dropbox..."
    for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
        start-stop-daemon -S -b -m --pidfile /var/run/dropbox-$dbuser.pid  -N $NICENESS -u $dbuser -v -e HOME="/home/$dbuser" -x $DROPBOX_INSTALL_DIR/dropboxd
    done
    eend $?
}

stop() {
    ebegin "Stopping dropbox..."
    for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
        start-stop-daemon --stop --pidfile /var/run/dropbox-$dbuser.pid
    done
    eend $?
}

status() {
    for dbuser in $DROPBOX_USERS; do
        if [ -e /var/run/dropbox-$dbuser.pid ] ; then
            echo "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: running."
        else
            echo "dropboxd for USER $dbuser: not running."
        fi
    done
    eend $?
}

设置自动启动

$ chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/dropbox
$ /etc/init.d/dropbox start
$ rc-update add default dropbox