I'm trying to set up a transmission server for use as a seedbox. I've done this before on an Ubuntu box, but this is the first time I've tried it on FreeBSD.
The default home directly for transmission from the FreeBSD package collection is /usr/local/etc/transmission/home. As this is on my small partition, I moved the contents of this directly to /home/transmission (on my large partition) and created a symlink from /usr/local/etc/transmission/home to /home/transmission.
I changed the ownership of both the link and the directory+contents to the transmission user, and then recursively set chmod 644 on the contents of /home/transmission. I chose 644 because I want my SSH user to be able to grab the contents of the /home/transmission/Downloads/ (so I can get the files to my home PC via SFTP).
The trouble is, transmission keeps resetting the directory permissions! See below:
[peter@haida ~]$ sudo ls -al /home/transmission
total 72
drwxr-x--- 6 transmission transmission 512 May 17 16:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root wheel 1024 May 17 03:11 ..
drwxr--r-- 4 transmission transmission 512 May 17 03:22 Downloads
drwxr--r-- 2 transmission transmission 512 May 16 03:34 blocklists
-rw------- 1 transmission transmission 2885 May 17 16:08 dht.dat
drwxr--r-- 2 transmission transmission 512 May 17 06:16 resume
-rw------- 1 transmission transmission 2226 May 17 16:08 settings.json
-rw------- 1 transmission transmission 149 May 17 06:20 stats.json
drwxr--r-- 2 transmission transmission 512 May 17 03:21 torrents
Note that the /home/transmission folder (.) has permissions 750. The Downloads subfolder has permissions 744, which is what I want, however, as the parent directory is 750 I can't actually look in there as a non-privileged user.
I tried changing the default umask in settings.json to no effect (my settings file: http://pastebin.com/v83ikGrn). Any ideas?
