Transmission

Installation

Transmission should be available in numerous distributions, so we don't have to compile it from source in most cases.

Once installed, it could be run as a systemd service under a different user name:

$ cat /etc/systemd/system/transmission.service.d/username.conf 
[Service]
User=transmission
 
[Unit]
RequiresMountsFor=/mnt/data/tmp

Or, if started manually:

sudo -H -u transmission transmission-daemon --log-info --logfile ~transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/messages.log

Configuration

The transmission-daemon can be configured via ~transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json:

{
   "blocklist-enabled": true,
   "blocklist-url": "http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=ydxerpxkpcfqjaybcssw&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz",
   "dht-enabled": true,
   "download-dir": "/mnt/data/tmp",
   "encryption": 2,
   "incomplete-dir": "/mnt/data/tmp/.queue",
   "incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
   "lpd-enabled": true,
   "message-level": 2,
   "peer-port": 6881,
   "peer-port-random-high": 6999,
   "peer-port-random-low": 6890,
   "peer-port-random-on-start": false,
   "pex-enabled": true,
   "port-forwarding-enabled": false,
   "preallocation": 1,
   "prefetch-enabled": true,
   "rpc-authentication-required": false,
   "rpc-bind-address": "127.0.0.1",
   "rpc-enabled": true,
   "rpc-port": 9091,
   "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
   "rpc-username": "",
   "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
   "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
   "utp-enabled": false
   [...]
}

Links

• Arch Linux: Transmission
• Configuration Files