Transmission Torrent Client

Debian 8 Jessie

apt-get install transmission-daemon
systemctl stop transmission-daemon
nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Whitelist, rpc user, pass , and port...also peer port, download and incomplete dirs.

• rpc does not follow cidr but instead *. so 192.168.1.*

systemctl start transmission-daemon

CIFS watch directory

inotify is used to notify transmission that a new file has been added.

This does not work with CIFS. So someone talked about making a script that checked everyone once in a while and used transmission-remote -a $file to send to transmission.

But the simpler method is just to create two watch dirs...one local and one remote and have the crontab move the torrent file to the local dir.

So lets do it:

watch-dir: String 
watch-dir-enabled: Boolean (default = false) Watch a directory for torrent files and add them to transmission.

Note: When watch-dir-enabled is true, only the transmission-daemon, transmission-gtk, and transmission-qt applications will monitor watch-dir for new .torrent files and automatically load them.

systemctl stop transmission-daemon
su -
cd /var/lib/transmission-daemon
mkdir watch
chown debian-transmission:debian-transmission watch
chmod 777 watch
crontab -e

Then add this:

*/1 * * * * mv /mnt/CIFSMOUNT/watch/*.torrent /var/lib/transmission-daemon/watch > /dev/null 2>&1

nano /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

   "watch-dir": "/var/lib/transmission-daemon/watch",
   "watch-dir-enabled": true

Respect the commas at the end of the lines, except the last line. Also look in the syslog if you have issues. I had permssion problems with the incomplete and download dirs. The chmod 777 watch...may be able to be restricted more.

systemctl start transmission-daemon