unMenu and Tranmission, some advice regarding configuration file

[paulylah]

Hey fellas,

 

Long time unraider, first time poster.

 

I have been using the tranmission torrent client that comes with unMenu without issue for some time, but theres one thing i just can't seem to get right! Seems no matter what i do in the .conf file the client wont obey they following commands

 

1. Torrent auto add or "watch" folder

2. Incomplete and Complete directory settings

 

Anyone body who can give me any advice, greatly appreciated!

 

I think this could have something to do with me not quite understanding the fact that the transmission.conf file exists in several locations and I keep making edits and none of them seem to appear live. I have also tried using the conf editor built into unmenu.

If you can advise which conf file is the 'real' one, then I can post it here

Thanks for any help,

 

Paul

[bobbintb]

i had a similar issue with something else and it might apply here, might not. is transmission running when you make those changes? if so they might not be taking effect because the file is locked or immediately being over written.

[Razor444]

I have a similar but somewhat different question to transmission conf file.

 

I need to stop transmission deamon, copy my custom conf file to transmission/conf (overwrite existing one), and then start transmission again.

 

How can i do it automatically? Maybe someone could guide me to writing script file?

 

I need this because unMenu doesn't support all options in the transmission conf file (only ~half of them), and every time i reboot NAS, the other half of options (settings) revert back to default values.

 

Thanks

[Razor444]

This is what i came up with (with the help of prostuff1):

 

You will need to change the last couple lines in the .conf file that installs Transmission.

 

Those lines are:

PACKAGE_INSTALLATION       /etc/rc.d/unraid.d/rc.unraid_transmission start
PACKAGE_INSTALLATION       echo "Started Transmission" >> /var/log/syslog
PACKAGE_INSTALLATION       echo "Please go <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://${MyHost}{vRPC_PORT}\"><b>Here</b></a> to get to the Transmission web interface</br></br>" 

 

Just place a "#" in front of those lines and you should be good from there.

 

If you don't want to do that you can always stop transmission before moving into place your settings.json file.  you can do that by putting this:

/etc/rc.d/unraid.d/rc.unraid_transmission stop

 

 

into your script that copies over the settings.json file.

 

I had to change this in two files that were in packages directory.

 

 

And my go script looks like this:

 

cd /mnt/disk1/SOFT/.transmission/
cp settings.json conf/
/etc/rc.d/unraid.d/rc.unraid_transmission start

[prostuff1]

The only thing I will add to this is:

 

If you have already installed transmission and have it installing on reboot; make sure that the 3 lines listed first in the above post are commented out in the .auto_install file.

[Razor444]

Yes, those two files where i changed these lines were:

 

transmission-unmenu-package.conf

 

and

 

transmission_unraid-2.42-i486-1kh.txz.auto_install