Settings in this file apply to transmission-daemon when run manually from the command line. ~/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json - This is probably created after you run the daemon manually for the first time.
There are a couple of configuration files that the Transmission daemon sets up. ps xĢ1180 ? Ssl 110:40 transmission-daemon Settings Check your list of processes and you should see it. To run the daemon, simply run transmission-daemon from anywhere. Alternatively, you can consider using Cron creatively so you don’t have to start the daemon manually every time you boot your computer up. If you find yourself shutting your computer down often, you may want to consider using it as a service and changing the settings file to your liking (also covered later). So far, I have only found myself running the daemon manually (covered later) since I use my Pi as an always-on computer. If your Linux distro uses some other service orchestrator over systemd, you will need to check if Transmission has registered itself with it. Sudo systemctl disable transmission-daemon Since I didn’t want to run the daemon as root and use the default system-wide directories to save my torrents to, I decided to disable the service and run it completely inside my main user account. So, it took me a while to figure this out, but the transmission-daemon may set itself up as a service on your system.
Transmission-daemon is the main torrent client, and as the name suggests, it runs in the background.
#TRANSMISSION TORRENT CLIENT 2.93 INSTALL#
Just install transmission-cli and transmission-daemon. You can use whatever package manager that comes with your Linux distro of choice of course. sudo apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-daemon I’m using Raspbian, so I used apt-get to install the required packages. This post exists as a quick and dirty overview guide for people who want to torrent entirely from the command line (using Transmission). It’s a great, easy to use torrent client unfortunately, there is a lack of decent documentation around it. I wanted a torrent client that I could use completely on the command line, run as a daemon of some sort. I’ve got a no-cap Internet connection lying around doing nothing when I’m at work. I figured I could put this always-on computer to some good use at the same time and contribute to torrent swarms for some Linux distros and other open source projects. I set up a Raspberry Pi 3 for some smart home projects that have been swimming around in my head lately.