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Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client.

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Why run a service as a system user?

I have a general question about the UNIX world. I am currently running Ubuntu at home and installed Transmission on a device and it runs as and saves files as the transmission-debian user. I am wondering if it makes sense for me to change this to my…
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Why is LPD not enabled by default in Transmission?

Since version 2.00, Transmission has Local Peer Discovery feature, which seems quite useful. I was surprised that it wasn't enabled by default though, so I became concerned about any potential issues it might have.
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Set Transmission as default program when opening magnet links

How can I set up Chromium to open Transmission when clicking on a magnet link such as on TPB? Chromium says that it will use xdg-open but that generally doesn't do anything System: Manjaro Linux 0.8.5.2 fully upated Desktop Environment: Xfce 4.10
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transmission-daemon: UDP Failed to set receive / send buffer

I just compiled the transmission{-daemon,-cli} on my Debian 10 Buster, and installed it with some minor and major problems. One of those minor ones is apparent failure to set UDP receive buffer / send buffer as per log: [2019-05-23 12:45:40.950] UDP…
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Wait to start Transmission daemon until after USB drive has mounted?

I'm running transmission-daemon as a systemd service on OSMC. When opening its remote control web interface after a reboot all transfers are almost always halted with the message "Error: No data found! Ensure your drives are connected [...]". I'm…
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Is transmission-daemon logging set-up properly?

I am having a question on GNU/Linux Debian 8.5 with transmission-daemon service. I fail to see if there is a problem with how I set-up its log file. Because the log file does't grow (actually there's nothing). First the manual: -e --logfile …
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Does the Transmission use only TCP or also UDP?

Will an opened UDP port accelerate torrenting using Transmission? I opened TCP port and the Transmission plainly says the port is open. I used Vuze before, and it used both TCP, and UDP. There has even been an option whether to prefer UDP or TCP.…
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How to set up OpenVPN and Transmission to start at boot on CentOS 6?

I'm trying to set up Transmission with OpenVPN on a headless server running a minimal install of CentOS 6.10, and ideally these would start when I boot the system. I'm able to get everything to run by following the steps here and here — but that…
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Transmission-daemon service spontaneously stops

I've installed, configured and ran transmission-daemon on my CentOS 6 machine using service transmission-daemon start This works nicely, and I can see the web interface on http://server.ip:9091 as I need to. The problem is, that several minutes…
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How do I allow user permissions to data on a Couchpotato and Sickbeard Plugin using Freenas

Trying to setup permissions for the plugins sickbeard / couchpotato. I’ve read almost every thread google / the forums have but haven’t really found a solution yet. I’m assuming it’s the data here: (Jail name)/usr/pbi/xxxxxxxxxx I tried: chown -R…
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Configure add-to-tranmission-daemon-action in firefox?

How do I configure firefox such that a clicked bittorent link is automatically added to a transmission daemon that runs on a remote machine? The transmission daemon is available via ssh/transmission-remote-control port. I can easily instruct firefox…
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Get transmission web interface working with web server

I have my working on default port and I want to be able to use the web interface with an URL like http://my.domain/torrents. I tried adding a location and a proxy conf to Nginx but it fail to work fully. I guess it's because of web interface…
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Chrome opens a second Transmission window with magnet links. How does it check if there is a transmission open or not?

The magnet link is correctly set with xdg-mime to open in transmission, and also in .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. If transmission is NOT running, everything works as expected (click a magnet link or torrent file, and it opens). If…
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transmission-remote: Get ID of torrent after adding torrent

Is there a way to retrieve the ID generated by transmission on a newly added torrent when invoking the command: $> transmission-remote -a file.torrent The return value of this command $? returns 0 or 1 depending on whether the torrent was a valid…
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Transmission keeps resetting file system permissions on FreeBSD

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…
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