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Argh!!! Linux != Windows

Yeah, so I installed Transmission on a new ClearOS system that has a faster broadband connection, and configured it quickly. Or at least I thought I did.

I created a flexshare, (the how-to seems to side step the important details on how to do this), did the chown for the user transmission, and no luck. I'm not sure what I did wrong.

So, after fooling around with trying to add the transmission user to the flexshare group I created {who was owner of said flexshare}, and then later the all users group, I still couldn't get it to work.

I did a yum remove transmission - and deleted some of the other folders that were installed when installing transmission the first time. Linux != Windows.... {Linux is NOT Windows} ...

So, now that I've reinstalled transmission after my faux pas Windows uninstall technique - I can't fully reinstall Transmission.

My questions:
How do I fully remove transmission, and how do I reinstall it?

How do I really set up flexshares to work with transmission? I don't want to use the allusers group if I don't have to.

Lastly, is there anyway to configure Transmission so that it will download to a temp directory and then move completed downloads to a 'finished' directory; a directory selected users can browse/download via web/ftp?

I was about to install torrentflux-b4rt as I know it offered the advanced functionality I like; however the yum install transmission seemed like it would have been a heck of a lot faster and easier to set up.......

deadkatz wrote:
Lastly, is there anyway to configure Transmission so that it will download to a temp directory and then move completed downloads to a 'finished' directory; a directory selected users can browse/download via web/ftp?
In the transmission options in the web interface, in the preferences you can add where you want the completed files downloaded to. I assume this could be your flexshare.

]Also, how did you install transmission? Did you use the new rpm of this how-to? Silly question. The answer is in your post.

Hi Deadkatz,

You can change the settings.json file. It's locate at /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon/settings.json



but i have some strange effects with using this directory. The tracker wasn't stopping the torrents which i downloaded (they were completed). The stay active till they timed out. Have to figure out what is causing this problem. I think some owner / permission problem. When i'm using only the download directory there are no problems.

p.s. i did chmod 770 the download-flexshare

Let me know how it goes...

@Marcel,
It is better to leave the incomplete-dir alone. This is used while downloading. If you set the download-dir, this is where the downloads are put when complete. This way you keep your incomplete and complete torrents separate.

FWIW, I also run a cron job to move the complete downloads to another location, but it leaves downloads in a funny state in transmission and I need to work out how to remove the tracking files at the same time (which is easy if they do not have spaces in them, but some have spaces)

Hi Nick Howitt,

Thanks for the input but, i don't agree with you when i download a torrent it is downloaded in the flexshare what i created for the torrents. I also thought that the incomplete directory is deactivated by default. I have to check this in a virtual machine to be sure.

I installed the Transmission RPM Peter Baldwin created. I don't know of this make any difference's in my situation.

I have not replaced my original set up with Pete's rpm so I don't know how he has changed things.

This is from the Transmission wiki about the .json variables:
Location

* download-dir: String (default = default locations)
* incomplete-dir: String (directory to keep incomplete files in)
* incomplete-dir-enabled: Boolean (default = false) When enabled, new torrents will download the files to incomplete-dir. When complete, the files will be moved to download-dir.

Hi Nick and Marcel. Thanks for the prompt reply's.

My first problem is reinstalling Transmission. I originally did a yum install transmission (the RPM Peter has made available) and, after not getting it to work quite the way I wanted, I removed it via yum remove and manually deleted some folders/files relevant to Transmission. It installs when I try to reinstall via yum, although it can't find the directories and files I removed manually when trying to ... *ahem* uninstall Transmission.

When I last had Transmission running, it seemed to me that based on the default config it downloaded to the directory specified via the preferences menu, and had no separate directory for in progress downloads or incomplete downloads. They were just all in the same directory.

What I did previously is bind the default directory to a flexshare which worked well enough, at least it did for windows file sharing. I didn't try web or ftp when I had the default download directory {/var/misc/lib/transmission - ? - or whatever it is} binded to a flexshare so I'm not certain if this works with full flexshare functionality.

@Marcel
When I have transmission installed correctly again, I'll try the chmod 770 and let you know how it works.

@Nick
By default the incomplete-dir-enabled is set to false. At least I'm pretty sure it was when I was digging around the .json file prior to manually deleting it so I don't think its been changed by Peter's RPM.

At this point then, I'm a little confused. Is it possible to set two different directories; one for completed downloads and one for incomplete or in progress downloads?

deadkatz wrote:
@Nick
By default the incomplete-dir-enabled is set to false. At least I'm pretty sure it was when I was digging around the .json file prior to manually deleting it so I don't think its been changed by Peter's RPM.

At this point then, I'm a little confused. Is it possible to set two different directories; one for completed downloads and one for incomplete or in progress downloads?
Yes. My incomplete-dir-enabled is set to true and while downloading, the download goes into the incomplete directory, only transferring to the download-dir when the download is complete.

If you're trying to reinstall and failing, can you set up a ClearOS VM then compare the VM with your proper set up?

Why yes I can!

Good idea, thank you.

@ Nick Howitt,

do you have strange effects when using the incompete directory? In my case using this directory the torrent isn't stopped on the tracker (when finished downloading), and stay active till timed out.