Transmission

Every 2 hours in my logs I am seeing scrape and announce transactions from localhost which 404 in my apache log: 127.0.0.1 - - [05/Jan/2022:05:29:00 +0000] "GET /scrape?info_hash=%99%b5%5d%c4%bf%1e%5c%fd%17%be%c1%ee%a1%f0%2f%d9.M%01z HTTP/1.1" 404 204 "-" "Transmission/2.94"
127.0.0.1 - - [05/Jan ...

Thanks for the responses. This is the daemon script (part of /etc/init.d/functions)
# A function to start a program.
daemon() {
# Test syntax.
local gotbase= force= nicelevel corelimit
local pid base= user= nice= bg= pid_file=
nicelevel=0
while [ "$1" != "${1##[-+]}" ]; do
case $1 in ...

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What you suggest is what I did while trying to track down the issue - stop transmission-daemon, delete settings.json, start transmission-daemon with the init script. A new settings.json was created in /home/transmission/.config/transmission-daemon rather than /var/lib/transmission/.config ...

I had checked /etc/sysconfig/transmission-daemon and it is effectively empty:
# Username/password example
# DAEMON_ARGS="-b -t -a \"*.*.*.*\" -e /var/log/transmission/transmission.log"

# No username/password, but limited to 192.168.1.*
# DAEMON_ARGS="-b -T -a \"192.168.1.*\" -e /var/log ...

Hi,
I've been using transmission on ClearOS (a CentOS derivative) for a while now (v1.92?) which I installed a while back using a standard user "transmission" with a home folder of /home/transmission. There is now an rpm for ClearOS using v2.22. The rpm uses a home of /var/lib/transmission and has ...