Transmission

Transmission

ybotcoombes 25 Aug 2008 20:51

Hello everybody

My unix must be better than i remembered as I managed to install ssh / install transmission (which works) and get it to autostart, i cant however get it to default to the right directory or starup with a maximum download rate of 30kbs (if i set it using the web when the server reboots it looses the settings).

Can anyone talk me through where the config file for transmission is / or how i create one / where i stick it etc.

My unix / linux is rusty but I have a basic undersanding

any help appreciated

cheers
Toby

Re: Transmission

frater 25 Aug 2008 21:39

The settings are in /root/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

That's if you ran it as user root.

${HOME}/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

It is supposed to keep the settings… maybe some kind of permission problem….

Re: Transmission

ybotcoombes 25 Aug 2008 22:05

Thanks for the reply - there is no file settings.json in the direectory (i def ran as root -but that would explain why the setting keep reseting) any change of posting what shoud be in the file then so i can create it ?

Cheers
Toby

Re: Transmission

alephsmith 25 Aug 2008 22:09

What IS in that directory then?

Did you install Transmission v1.30+?

Re: Transmission

ybotcoombes 25 Aug 2008 22:18

Hi the directory contains three sub directories:

blocklists
resume
torrents

its version 1.33 - i probably missed something in the install
cheers
Toby

Re: Transmission

frater 26 Aug 2008 05:29

Hello…

I just did an experiment…
I killed transmission and renamed my /root/.config directory to /root/.cconfig

After I start transmission the directory /root/.config/transmission-daemon is created and when I save the settings using the webinterface on port 9091 the file settings.json is created.

Did you install it using optware?

Re: Transmission

ybotcoombes 26 Aug 2008 22:11

Hi frater

Just copied your experiment killed off the process and rename the .config directory ,then restarted - which like you recreates the .config directory,however when i load up the web interfacce and save the config it doesnt create the settings.json file.

I did install from optware

Is there another process i need to start - or could it be a permissions thing ?

Cheers
Toby

Re: Transmission

ybotcoombes 26 Aug 2008 23:01

work out what was going on

the settings file is in /.config/transmission-daemon/ rather than /root/.config/transmission-daemon

not sure why must be something i have done

Thanks for your help
Toby

Re: Transmission

frater 26 Aug 2008 23:09

I can't think of anything else than a full harddisk, but that's probably not the case…
Is there any info in /var/log/messages ?

I will post here my settings.json file:

cat /root/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json

{
    "blocklist-enabled": 0,
    "download-dir": "\/shares\/internal\/PUBLIC\/Torrent\/work",
    "download-limit": 100,
    "download-limit-enabled": 0,
    "encryption": 0,
    "max-peers-global": 200,
    "peer-port": 51413,
    "pex-enabled": 1,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": 1,
    "rpc-access-control-list": "+127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-authentication-required": 0,
    "rpc-password": "",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-username": "",
    "upload-limit": 40,
    "upload-limit-enabled": 1
}

Re: Transmission

frater 26 Aug 2008 23:12

Execute these commands:

[root@mybook log]# echo $USER
root
[root@mybook log]# echo $HOME
/root
[root@mybook log]# cat /etc/passwd | grep root:
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

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